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...find out that they're just people," she says. "It's amazing as you study politicians. They get so wrapped up in staying in office that they lose contact with the people." A Shirley Chisholm supporter, Betty Patrick is now taking lessons in parliamentary procedure and throwing potluck dinners to raise the $500 she needs to go to Miami Beach...
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...specific companies. Such a study helps students in several ways. By pointing out what they are interested in to various businesses, they are more likely to be offered what they want. And students are also forced to examine their motives; all too often a career is picked by potluck, or for the wrong reasons. The study hopes to bring the student and potential employer in closer communication with each other...
...much of it in lumber camps or among soldiers. It helps avoid a certain amount of fighting as well as homosexuality." A lot of people clearly play for fun or excitement, and only secondarily for the just-maybe chance of winning some money. As that great prophet of potluck, Nick the Greek, once said: "The next-best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing. The main thing is the play." But the incentives are hard to separate. Behaviorist psychologists believe that what keeps people gambling is "intermittent reinforcement"-a regular expectation of winning. Says Harvard...
...surprise was not that he failed, but that he came within sighting distance of making it. A penny-ante player in a potluck game, he filled a couple of inside straights early, and these may have brought him more bad luck than good; when the law of averages straightened out, he fell easy prey to frustration, confusion and bitterness. He didn't have the equipment, and that only whetted his ambition further. What he did have was a fast spiel, a talent for flattering the real movers and shakers with grandiose ideas, and an astonishing gift for getting people...