Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the serious manpower shortage, Congress is in no mood to vote for a draft, not in peacetime, not with an election coming up. The most that Congress can probably be persuaded to accept this session is some form of registration...
Researchers know that excessive doses of mood-elevating amphetamines, which greatly increase the amount of dopamine in the brain, can bring on psychotic symptoms identical to those of schizophrenia. Recent studies also have indicated that schizophrenics have 50% more dopamine in their brains than non-schizophrenics, and twice the number of dopamine receptors, the sites where the chemical locks into the central nervous system. One line of thinking is that some people are born with high dopamine levels, but that somehow an "environmental trigger," perhaps some life crisis, sets the stage for schizophrenia. But a growing opinion is that...
...seat Capital Stadium. Ozawa was in ebullient humor and under no illusions about producing musical ecstasy in such a setting. Said he: "It's like swimming in the ocean after you have been swimming at the Y." The audience was in a jolly, responsive mood. Cellist Martin Hoherman brought down the house during an encore by playing a few phrases on the banhu, a Chinese instrument with two parallel strings, played by bowing between them. Hoherman was glad when his chore was over: "That technique is like drilling. A dentist should...
Jimmy Carter entered office with the hope of doubling U.S. economic development programs by 1982, but he soon curbed this aspiration in the face of a budget-chopping mood. He has pushed some increases through the Congress, with total aid outlays of $5.1 billion for fiscal 1978 and $5.9 billion for fiscal 1979. His current budget proposes just over $6 billion for fiscal 1980, and would have been higher, a White House spokesman said, except that larger sums "might have raised the profile of foreign aid and made it even more vulnerable." The proposed 1980 budget is vulnerable enough. While...
Congress at least seems to be in the mood to try. Pressure is growing for an overdue revision of national security laws. Whether Congress can better balance the inherent conflict between national security and the rights of fair trial and free press remains, however, to be seen...