Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fault" principle of auto insurance. At present, a person injured in an auto crash must prove that the accident was someone else's fault before he can collect any insurance award. Many accident victims-35% in Massachusetts-are unable to prove fault and never get a penny; others overload the courts and the insurers' investigative machinery with claims that take up to four years to settle...
...paranoid suspicions, was diagnosed as having organic brain disease. A combination of psychotherapy and a new job as treasurer of a charitable organization helped the man to recover completely. Other "senile" patients actually suffer from malnutrition, or have simply broken down out of loneliness, perhaps caused by a temporary overload. As one old man put it: "There is no one still alive who can call me John." Explains Harvard Psychoanalyst Martin Berezin: "The one thing which neither grows old nor diminishes is the need for love and affection. These drives, these wishes never change...
Many suburbs resort to building codes, zoning, planning and subdivision ordinances in a veiled effort to prevent construction of new housing intended for the poor. To encourage such projects, so the tired argument runs, would hurt the neighborhood and overload its schools. Washington has long avoided making a direct challenge to such local rules. But last week the Nixon Administration asked Congress to prohibit local governments from using their power to control land use in ways that thwart construction of federally subsidized housing for low-or moderate-income families. The legislation would hit suburbs hard, because it would apply only...
...sparse set, and we make use of lighting in both of these pieces in way we haven't in the past. And these things seem to be important and it is important to come at them in a very spare way and not to get into that thing of overload - of making up for what's not there through sets and costumes and stuff. But, rather, to start with the content which may in some cases be the actor and sometimes it may be the script or whatever and to expand from there, very sparsely, very slowly and only...
...Global Village our video environment, reflects in its structure our concept of the medium. It is a multi-channel, multi-sensory experience of video and kinetics. Entertainment and information exchange merge... an overload is triggered and from it a refracted image of our time is created...