Word: optimum
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...that puts us right on the cutting edge of the behavioral sciences." The Project means different things to different participants, but for most of the undergraduates who go every year, much of the program's value lies in the fact that it allows them to conduct research under optimum conditions. The city and the other group members are never far away if they want advice or old friends; most of the Indians with whom students work have been visited before and are fami- liar with the procedure of observation and interviewing. The Project now enjoys a history of good relations...
...workers get to choose their own hours, have frequent changes of jobs, and can work at their own pace. Joyce Peters '68, and IGS employee, says she thinks the organization is run very well, and that the management is very friendly. "The way it's set up is optimum for the way I want to work," she said...
...believe," says Pauling, "that mental disease is for the most part caused by abnormal reaction rates, as determined by genetic constitution and diet, and by abnormal molecular concentrations of essential substances. Significant improvement in the mental health of many persons might be achieved by the provision of the optimum molecular concentrations of substances normally present in the human body...
Just what these optimum concentrations may be for any individual, Pauling does not pretend to know. It will take a massive research effort over many years to find out, and to find out whether such mental illnesses as schizophrenia can be prevented or effectively treated as a result. But Pauling already has a resounding name for his brain child: "orthomolecular psychiatry," or giving the brain the right molecules in the right amounts...
...business by its very structure. "The reward structure of a good liberal arts college tends to lure the best men toward academic or professional careers," says the Atkinson-Stevens report. This is the first reason why "brighter"--more academically and intellectually motivated--students are avoiding business. Harvard places an optimum reward on academic achievement. The reward-incentive structure is one in which you receive quality of grades commensurate with quality of intellectual output. You use your brain, you get a gold star. In its most extreme case, it is scholarship for scholarship's sake. The college supposedly fosters freedom...