Word: nervousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lloyd Schwartz, an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, knew Bishop personally. The interviews Schwartz used in his thesis were the first the poet had ever given about her work, he said. "She was very shy about her poetry, and I was nervous about how she would react to my idea," said Schwartz...
...divided into two types of sequeces--exons and introns. Such work is integral to understanding the very mechanism by which genes encode hereditary information. In addition, Gilbert's work includes an analysis of how the human imune system operates, as well as discovering the molecular basis for central nervous system's development...
...women's organizations means she was getting mostly one kind of person -- "joiners," observes Regina Herzog, a research scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. The very low 4.5% response rate is also worrisome. "Five percent could be any oddballs," says Herzog. "We get pretty nervous if respondents in our own surveys go under...
Penny Kaganoff, who has reviewed several examples of the genre in her capacity as an editor at Publishers Weekly, agrees. "With more and more of these books, women are becoming more worried and more nervous about having a good relationship, and they are hearing their biological clock tick louder," % she says. "These books are less than helpful." Betty Friedan, godmother of the feminist movement, also warns of "books that prey on the transitional stage" in the sexual revolution, when women are still grappling with unaccustomed challenges...
Amid the turmoil surrounding his nomination, Bork has continued his visits with key Senators, tirelessly explaining his stands on legal issues, struggling to convince lawmakers that he is the right man for the Supreme Court. Though one Reagan aide described Bork as "nervous as a tic," he insists that the judge has never talked about withdrawing his nomination. "He was not asked to ((withdraw)) and didn't raise it" during a 20-minute pep talk with the President at the White House last week, said the aide. An official who spent a good deal of time with Bork last week...