Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move the party to the right and candidates who want to return to traditional Democratic values, Harkin speaks out boldly against "walking and talking a little bit more like Republicans." He's referring to Clinton and Tsongas, two GOP accommodators who appeal more to business than to labor and prefer capital gains tax cuts to cuts in defense spending...
...sports ranging from baseball to football to hockey, agrees Cal Botterill, a psychologist who works with the Chicago Blackhawks, "the very best athletes can use their emotions -- and anger is one of them -- to push their performance up." In fact, a baseball adage has it that managers prefer players who get mad. Anger steps up the body's pitch: blood pressure rises, heart and respiration rates quicken, and adrenaline surges. That may sharpen performance by heightening alertness, boosting energy and speeding up reactions...
...rule people prefer to teach courses students are serious about," says Nancy F. Bauer '82, a teaching assistant in the Philosophy Department. "A gut can be worse in some ways than other courses...you have the same amount of work, but it's worse work...
...women may switch gears later on or be bisexual throughout life. "There are some people in whom sexual orientation does not maintain itself," says June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University. "It's not a matter of what they prefer, it's whom they fall in love with." She cites the example of a woman who fell in love with and was married to a man for 10 years, then at the age of 30 fell in love with a woman and spent 11 years in that relationship...
...short story The Gold Bug, a little too cute, and they are probably right. On the other hand, The Gold Bug Variations passes the truth-in-advertising test: the label accurately reflects the additives Bach and Poe to the contents inside and warns away consumers who prefer their fiction plain...