Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...angry at Al's philandering, however, she is pleased. Nudged by a society not yet ready for Women's Lib, she had been wondering whether he was really masculine enough and fretting about the unfairness of keeping him "enslaved" at home. Being able to call him a rat is pure therapy. Still, she cannot quite shake the notion that it is unnatural for a healthy man to keep house...
...From my experience, conventional methods of solving urban, problems have been tried and have failed--it's been money down the rat hole. The more we spend the worse it gets. Forrester's analysis and description of the urban system is the only one that makes sense...
...conditioner to another location where it would not face any near neighbor. Similarly, he showed a paint-store owner, whose rooftop ventilators had brought complaints, how to build a noise shield that would stifle the racket. He also proved to officials of an excavating company that the vibrant rat-tat-tat of their pneumatic drills could be muffled...
...biochemists admit that their results may not be applicable to humans. They note that "feeding" the rats marijuana through tubes inserted directly into their stomachs is about one-sixth as effective as inhalation. On the other hand, the smallest chronic dosage given to any of the groups of rats was 30 times as high as that inhaled by heavy users of less potent, natural marijuana. Moreover, to duplicate the rat experiment with humans, the scientists estimated, a subject would have to puff his way through 50 joints of marijuana a day. Even so, the results of the experiment raise...
...these conditioning feats were accomplished with the now-famous Skinner box. It is a soundproof enclosure with a food dispenser that a rat can operate by pressing a lever, and a pigeon by pecking a key. The dispenser does not work unless the animal has first performed according to a specially designed "schedule of reinforcement...