Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Vucic of the Radical Party. "Jasko Serifovic, Marija's grandfather, has been a member of our party since 1995." The debate was interrupted by the singer herself, when she paid a short visit to the parliament on Monday, during the debate on Serbia's new government. "I am politically neutral and I intend to stay that way" Serifovic told the legislators in the Parliament's lounge. "I keep my hands off politics, and I expect the politicians to keep theirs off my music," she said...
...congressional investigation of the Justice Department deepens, Gonzales is certain to be getting more questions about the role that political appointees may have played in compromising the legally neutral mission of the department. Shortly before Goodling resigned, congressional sources say, she broke down in tears in the office of a colleague. "All I ever wanted to do," she sobbed, "was serve this President, this Administration, this department." What she didn't understand then was that she had her priorities backward...
...many circumstances, the mentally ill may not look “crazy.” Though those with unrelenting symptomatic behaviors may stand out, many sufferers’ illnesses are subtle and insidious. Many illnesses manifest behind the scenes—behind closed doors, in bursts or breaks, in neutral behaviors, or only in the mind. Harvard students are famous for our ability to cover, to act, to seem fine when we are not. We might question declarations of, “He seems fine!” with: Are you looking...
...Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, this relationship could translate into reduced quality of care for patients. Patients may receive drugs that aren’t the cheapest or aren’t best suited for them, said Caplan, adding that a neutral system provided by the government to educate doctors on drugs would be preferable to the current system. Campbell acknowledged that these gifts gave certain drug companies an unfair advantage. “We know that this influences doctor prescribing practices. That’s old news...
...drugs, the rats’ levels of dopamine were nearly the same, suggesting that the drug alone is not responsible for the pleasure experienced by drug addicts. A similar result was observed in an experiment with humans which did not involve any drugs at all. Subjects were shown both neutral control videos and videos that showed people using cocaine. Scientists observed that subjects’ dopamine levels increased drastically when shown videos of drug use. The experiments, Volkow said, demonstrate the strong connection between memory and craving, and suggest that more effective treatments might focus on disrupting memory rather than...