Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife, struggles to maintain her dignity through the memories of her Southern gentlewoman past, especially her days on Blue Mountain, where she imagined herself to be the heartthrob of an abundance of "gentleman callers." Her main purpose in life is to see her children married and successful. In the process of achieving these goals she manages to alienate Tom completely and to cause Laura to withdraw even further into herself...
Harvard Professor of Psychiatry J. Allan Hobson believes that the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep stage, during which a person's eyes move quickly back and forth, is the most energetic phase of our sleeping unconsciousness. During that period, the body restores its metabolic order through the process of dreaming, which is now believed to be responsibile for more than just expressing our Freudian desires, according to Hobson...
...Director Richard Thornburgh, former governor of Pennsylvania, said a political union at Harvard would help students to improve their public speaking. "I'm a working politician," said the administrator. "The process thrives on debate...
...moral authority on Harvard's relations with South Africa when, along with Steiner, he designed the ill-fated internship program to send Harvard students to teach in South African schools. After coming under attack from Black South African leaders for failing to include Blacks in the decision-making process and for not reaching Black South Africans with the internships, the University scrapped the program...
...sent it to the subcommittee for preliminary consideration. Prior to the December meeting, Steiner and Secretary to the Governing Boards Robert Shenton went on a tour of the country, visiting the Overseers at their homes and offices, explaining why they should not vote on the divestment resolution--skewing the process even more...