Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Positive thinking can surely be a powerful tonic, believes Dr. Jack Gorman, who is principal investigator for a National Institute of Mental Health study on the relationship between the course of the AIDS virus and the psyche. Preliminary evidence, he says, suggests that "depression and stress have bad effects on the immune system, while an optimistic and hopeful attitude has good effects." Other doctors continue to be skeptical about such thinking. "We all like to think that we have some power over what happens," says Dr. Richard Price, head of neurology at New York City's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer...
...their dealings have advanced from politely cool to vaguely friendly. Jackson customarily greets his adversary with a breezy "Hey, Duke." Dukakis, after some prodding, has recently taken to placing small-talk phone calls to Jackson. "We're going to continue to build what I hope will be a good relationship," Dukakis said. "We are united in the feeling that the stakes are very high in this election. We both want a new kind of leadership in the White House...
...left since Burns and William Weld announced their resignations March 29. Weld, who had headed the criminal division, told Reagan what he had earlier told Meese: that he would indict the Attorney General if he were running the investigation. Meese's friend E. Robert Wallach had profited from his relationship with the Attorney General, Weld said, and it appeared that Wallach had made sure that Meese was rewarded for going along with his schemes...
American companies have long viewed doing business with the Soviet Union as a dubious proposition, given the stormy politics of the superpower relationship. But under perestroika, General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to revitalize his country's economy, the Soviets are trying to attract American know-how to help step up the tempo of development. Encouraged by their overtures, dozens of U.S. companies -- among them Honeywell, Occidental Petroleum and Archer Daniels Midland -- are forming joint ventures in the Soviet Union...
Harvard is a large campus, and city officials have concluded that they lack enough inspectors for all campus buildings. So they have forged an "informal" relationship: all but the most basic fire safety checks are performed by the University's own inspectors. Yet the Carpenter Center episode illustrates that the task may be too difficult for Harvard to handle...