Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL decay which substance abuse induces is not just spreading inward from the outer fringes of society, as Reagan would have it. Rather, the decay is also at the core of American society and spreads outward as normal and "productive" Americans regularly consume large amounts of alcohol. Yet Reagan does not attack alcohol abuse with the same gusto as drug abuse...
Chicago Psychiatrist Sidney Weissman derisively calls it "the old Sears catalog" of psychological tests. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is indeed one of the oldest, longest and most cumbersome tests in use today. Millions of people in at least 46 countries, from psychotics to normal job seekers to Soviet cosmonauts, have puzzled their way through its seemingly endless array of odd and eerie statements (samples: "Much of the time my head seems to hurt all over"; "My soul sometimes leaves my body"; "In walking, I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"). Now, at age 44, the archetypal test...
...cannot say) to 566 statements. Originally designed to help identify those with psychological problems, the test was widely used in clinical settings during World War II by military officials who wanted quick findings about attitudes toward authority, impulse control, drive to dominate and other potentially troubling aspects of the normal personality...
Notably, Catliff--so potent from his normal spot on the forward line--was pulled back to midfield to bolster a line lacking injured Captain Paul Nicholas...
...authors, who have understandably sought to preserve their anonymity, have broken with their normal color-coding of the book's cover. Over the past few years, the stripe on the cover had been progressing along the electro-magnetic spectrum, and most industry analysts expected this year's to be a color only dogs could see. Instead, the book's iconoclastic authors have once again shown their disregard for stale traditions and have decorated the book with a crimson banner, as well as a large 350th logo...