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...Moses Malone, their over-powering center, sixth-man Calvin Murphy, and forward Robert Reid, Houston will pose a formidable barrier for the Celts, who emerge from their climactic semi-final showdown with Philly with a "How can we top that?" mindset...
Despite workers' approval of the settlements, many employees still resent what they perceive as Harvard's condescending mindset toward its support services "They say workers are dispensable. They say they could do outside contracting at a cheaper rate. They say they could bust the union by bringing in part-timers. How are we supposed to feel secure with high inflation?" one Harvard shop steward says, indicating that the University's impersonal approach to workers alienates and frightens a good number...
...hard to write objectively of Mr. Nixon. He is a ghost come back to haunt us, a reminder of a period of American history whose buried horrors are still in the process of being exhumed. To those who opposed him and the policies and mindset he represented, Nixon personified the banality of evil. He inspired a visceral contempt among students, who counted on him to supply a symbol of arrogance and decadence. The distaste was mutual. "When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy," Nixon said, equating protest with murder, on the day four students were killed by National Guardsmen...
John Hollingsworth does "rebirthing," a method of "releasing old patterns" by dealing with long-suppressed aspects of the trauma of birth. Leonard Orr discovered the technique in California and taught people to lie face down in a hot tub, breathing through a snorkel and maintaining a calm mindset. "After 20 to 25 minutes they'd go into a kind of fetal position and their breath would get very labored," Hollingsworth explains. This typically led to an ecstatic "rebirth experience" which was for many people "too powerful, too much of an accelerated growth." Hollingsworth now uses a "dry rebirthing technique" involving...
...been employed by companies that held licenses, permits or contracts with the commission. In particular, the U.C.S. is critical of NRC Chairman Joseph M. Hendrie for not keeping at arm's length the industry he regulates. Retorts Hendrie: "I don't think my critics know my mindset. They have a po litical goal, which is to capture the NRC with antinuclear forces." And Hendrie insists: "I've never worked a day in my life for the commercial nuclear industry...