Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetry or not, there is some harsh truth in the 1930 song hit You're Driving Me Crazy. Long experience with patients at Maryland's Chestnut Lodge, a private hospital for the mentally ill, has convinced Psychiatrist Harold F. Searles that "the individual becomes schizophrenic partly by reason of a long-continued . . . unconscious effort on the part of some person or persons . . . to drive him crazy." It would be inane to suggest that this is the only cause of the varied and complex conditions lumped together as schizophrenia, Dr. Searles admits in the British Journal of Medical Psychology...
...Labor Department issued the latest productivity figures, and they seemed to back management's claim. Productivity in steel had indeed declined in 1957 and 1958, said the report. But both management and labor were quick to agree that the new figures would have no bearing on negotiations. Reason: they could be misleading...
...reason why charts can predict a rise, says he, is a simple one. "When the top officers know that a company has taken a turn for the better, they start buying the stock themselves, or tell their friends. This buying shows up on the chart. As a new pattern forms, it is not hard to project what the stock should...
...only reason for the cutback in movies at all," says Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's boss, Sol C. Siegel, "is that we will not make pictures for the sake of making pictures any more." TV has killed the routine movie for most people (who can watch all the routine movies they want to on TV), forced Hollywood to concentrate on blockbusters-the big-screen, big-star, big-color extravaganzas that often cost upwards of $3,000,000. The blockbusters have no trouble luring people away from TV, are the favorites of the drive-in theaters, which have grown from...
...Bombay, India, R. T. Sahni, divisional superintendent of the Central Railway System, said that one reason why trains on the Nagpur division are so frequently behind schedule is that approximately 180 babies are born in them each year...