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...this year the team may just psych itself up enough to overcome the rebuilding-year obstacles that prevented it from winning more than four games last year...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Women Pucksters Face B.U. Tonight | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

Although many students think of Room 13 as an offshoot of the University Health Services (UHS) psych ward, Burger and her co-coordinator, Gary Siegelman '81, stress that the staffers are not a group of aspiring psychiatrists testing their ability to take apart people's minds. Chosen each spring after a competitive selection process--last year 120 applied for 18 positions--the counselors' interests range from government to biochem. But Burger says, they have one thing in common--the ability "to deal sensitively with all kinds of issues...

Author: By William F. Powers, | Title: Room 13: Keeping the Midnight Watch | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

...positions, past and present. Said Research Chief Martin Franks: "Carter knows how he ought to answer the questions himself. What he needs to study is how Reagan will probably answer." Mostly, however, the President intended to use the three days before the debate to rest, clear his mind and psych himself up for the confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Down the Stretch | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...shouldn't matter much, at least not to this champion. The Greatest will keep talking throughout the fight, bullying his opponent with taunts and teasers. Ali will talk, but Holmes, as his former sparring partner, is used to it. It won't faze him. Holmes himself has learned the psych game and may offer a few words of his own before the night is through...

Author: By Lucy M. Schulte, | Title: The Last Hurrah | 10/1/1980 | See Source »

...really hard to keep enthusiastic, to get my energy going. I have to psych myself up for each interview, and the more I get turned down, the harder it is to go to the next. Sometimes I feel like crying before I leave the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Idle Army of Unemployed | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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