Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years I have had the opportunity to study most other airline operations, and we are no more inferior than quite a few I could mention. If fairness is your doctrine, you might mention the long hours put in by our executives; the patient humor and heroic efforts of pur ticket agents, operations and reservations staffs who have lived through this six-month nightmare-that is the real story...
They had to be both patient and abstemious-qualities that, on examination, involve considerable intelligence. Chance has called this process "equilibration"-defined by Fox as "the ability to control and to time responses, to understand the consequences of one's actions." The foolish peripheral male obeyed only his hormones, invaded the dominant male's harem and was either killed or ostracized. The clever male restrained this impulse and intelligently awaited a fruitful opportunity to topple, replace or succeed the Sultan...
...exact mechanism by which methadone works is not known, but it involves tolerance and cross-tolerance, or blockade. The patients who take carefully stepped-up doses of methadone be come tolerant in the sense that they observe no outward effect from it. Presumably because methadone works on the same brain centers as heroin, it induces a cross-tolerance to heroin and blocks its effects. A methadone patient can be challenged with a massive mainline fix and show no response-except enormous relief at the knowledge that now he can take it or leave it alone. He can watch...
...students) urges the acceptance of Col. Pell's challenge by abolishing ROTC at Harvard. We hope to convince the Harvard community that it is a political decision of the utmost gravity to maintain or eliminate ROTC. This choice should be made on the basis of accurate information and lengthy, patient discussion of the issues...
...before joining the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, Goffman spent a year of research at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. His experiences there, recorded in Asylums, strongly affected his developing theories on social behavior. Goffman's understanding of mental patients borrows more from the unwritten rules of social occasions than from psychiatric theory. In his opinion, many inmates are simply people who have so flagrantly broken the rules of seemly behavior that they have been dismissed from the game. "I know of no psychotic misconduct," Goffman has written, "that cannot be matched precisely in everyday...