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Schachter reached his conclusion after conducting a series of experiments over the past four years. Like other researchers, Schachter and his team (Brett Silverstein, Lynn Kozlowski and Deborah Perlick) found that heavy smokers, given only low-nicotine cigarettes to smoke, tried to compensate; to inhale their normal quota of nicotine, they smoked more cigarettes and puffed more frequently. Even so, some were not able to make up the difference and showed withdrawal symptoms: increased eating, irritability and poorer concentration...
Apart from bruising wisdom, there is an unexpected quota of humor in Michael Cristofer's play. Aided by a splendid cast, Davidson's fluent direction suggests an affecting choreography of lost souls...
...mandates that a greater amount of effort be made to recruit qualified female and minority applicants. AA requires that the proportion of minorities and women at any job level reflects the proportion of qualified minorities and women available. AA does not mean hiring unqualified persons, nor is it a quota system which merely requires an institution to fill a certain number of minorities and women. AA will not tolerate excuses and procrastination but immediately requires that steps be taken to eliminate all forms of discrimination, direct of indirect...
...United States. Two weeks later, Paris fell and, with a million other Parisians, I was in my car on the roads of southern France. Eventually, I reached Marseilles and saw the American consul there. He informed me that I could not go to America since the Latvian quota (eighteen people per year) was filled for the next seven years. My sister and my wife visited Professor Einstein and it was through his personal intervention that my name was added to the list of writers and artists in the South of France who were given Rescue Committee's emergency visas...
...Court Speaks. The California Supreme Court supported Bakke and declared that racial discrimination is illegal even "if the race discriminated against is the majority rather than the minority." Instead of relying on a quota system, it said, the university might enroll more minority students by means of active recruiting and remedial teaching. The university was dubious. Says its general counsel, Donald Reidhaar: "No one has yet been able to come up with other really effective special admissions programs...