Word: picked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streak of perfectionism, that puts people on the path to dependency. Explains Dr. Sheila Blume, director of a treatment program at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, N.Y.: "There is no evidence of a single addictive personality type. You cannot go to a class of junior high kids and pick out who will become an addict." Nonetheless, addicts do have a common pattern of behavior. Observes Blume: "They have translated feelings of distress like 'I'm bored' or 'I'm lonely' or 'I'm angry' into feelings of 'I need a drink' or 'a hit' or 'a fix.' " Tina Tessina...
...Choosing deans is not a matter of choosing sides," Bok said. "I would not pick a dean without having made the strongest possible effort to convice myself that the dean I chose is determined to be the dean of all the faculty...
UNDER the new lottery system, eight of the 12 undergraduate houses will reserve 25 percent of their space for randomly assigned freshmen. The lottery will proceed in the same manner as it has in past years--except that freshmen will not know their numbers when they pick their top three choices. Because only eight of the houses have agreed to participate in the new plan, about 17 to 25 percent of freshmen will be assigned randomly, some to houses that have normally been filled on the first round of choices. In past years, usually 10 to 15 percent of freshmen...
When Vorenberg announced his resignation last spring, faculty members said they hoped Bok would pick a conciliatory candidate to take over--a professor who would bring the Law School's factions together...
...because it isn't true. It's not how we pick people these days and you know it," Dukakis replied...