Word: motor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thirds of the children that exhibited an early tendency of shyness carried this tendency to the age of two years, showing "high motor activity to stimuli." According to Kagan, these children will be "cautious, shy and restrained...
...shortfall next year, the Governor has calmly proposed putting everything from zoos to skating rinks into private hands, firing 6,200 of 63,000 state employees, forcing the state government's entire remaining work force to take 10 days of unpaid leave before July, shutting down 18 of 37 motor-vehicle offices, closing mental-health hospitals, abolishing the board of regents and making the elderly count their homes as assets in qualifying for Medicaid nursing-home care...
...bread came last summer at the faculty club at George Washington University, where Etzioni teaches; his luncheon companion was political scientist William Galston, the issues director of Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign. Sensing a shared perspective, Etzioni plied Galston with hypothetical conflicts. Are sobriety checkpoints for drivers of motor vehicles an infringement of civil liberties? What should the police be legitimately allowed to do to disrupt open-air drug markets...
...prompted alarming predictions of millions of dollars' worth of damage to water-supply systems and the ruination of the sport-fishing industry. A year ago, the city of Monroe, Mich., lost its water supply for two full days because intake lines were plugged with zebra mussels. Earlier, Ford Motor's casting plant in Windsor, Ont., found the creatures choking off the flow of cooling water to its furnaces. Boaters, meanwhile, have watched their hulls and engines become encrusted with mussels...
...help neighbors to the east modernize their industries and fight pollution. Both Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, have offered to help Poland cleanse its air. Klaus Matthiesen, environment minister of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia, notes that spending on environmental preservation "must be regarded as an important motor of economic change...