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Word: myer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...messages to the brain, and the brain itself does not develop until then the cognitive structure needed to perceive pain or aggression or to perform "purposeful action." It is especially irresponsible for the narrator of the movie to assert that a 12-week fetus could experience pain. Dr. Edwin Myer, chairman of the department of pediatric neurology at the Medical Colege of Virginia, says "that the fetus feels pain is a totally ridiculous statement. Pain implies cognition. There is no brain to receive the information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manipulative 'Silent Scream' | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...happy tale of Helen Hooven Sant myer is the stuff of literary myth. Her first two novels were ignored in the 1920s. But the lady never lost heart. She planned a stirring rebuttal to Sinclair Lewis' scabrous attacks on Middle America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...there is the capacity for the hard, calculating decision: in July, after a 24-year career, Dawkins resigned from the Army, wife Judi in attendance at the farewell ceremony at Fort Myer, Va. The move did not surprise his parents, Henry, a dentist now retired, and Frances, who lives in a condominium in Bloomfield Hills, a comfortable Detroit suburb not far from Royal Oak, where Pete grew up. Says Frances: "He said there was an optimum age to make a change, and this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Playing Fields | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

With three wide receivers in the game. Pecevich attacked the Harvard secondary again on second down. Looking for flanker Kevin Jackson on a sideline pattern, the UMass quarterback instead connected with Harvard's Myer's for the second straight time...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Allard, Gridders Pass UMass, 31 - 14 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

Jordan's resignation is only the latest in a string of departures that have been going on since early last winter. First to depart was Myer Rashish, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Long an irritant to right-wing conservatives because of his liberal views on international trade matters, Rashish resigned following a series of personality clashes with Secretary of State Alexander Haig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Vanishing Advisers | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

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