Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they drifted out onto the White House grounds, now bejeweled with Christmas lights, the leaders were in a gloomy mood. "Unless black people are given relief," said National Urban League Director Vernon Jordan Jr., "it will be impossible for them to contain their despair or for them to sublimate their anger through the political process. It is a distressful situation that we cannot contain...
After listening to or reading a variety of misconceived notions about Robert Brustein's possible appointment as director of the Loeb, it was certainly a relief to come across Stephen Toope's realistic appraisal in The Crimson of December 5. Nonetheless, although I agree with Toope in many respects, I think a somewhat different and possibly even more realistic interpretation of certain facts is open...
Contrary to the view that Klemesrud is cultivating here, the return to more fashionable dressing than what we saw ten years ago is occuring in both sexes. People--men and women alike--are just dressing better. Frankly, I know very few women who feel a sense of relief "now that they are being told they're sex objects again," as one feminist psychologist, Dr. Phyllis Chesler, seems to believe...
...Scientists speculate that under normal conditions, enkephalins bind to a certain number of receptor sites. Morphine acts to relieve pain by filling the remaining sites. But too much morphine overloads the system, causing enkephalin production to be cut off. More morphine is needed to fill the receptors and produce relief. If the narcotic is then withheld, all the receptors remain empty, resulting in typical withdrawal symptoms. With this knowledge, researchers hope to design nonaddictive pain relievers...
Indeed, the antitax spirit often seemed strong even where measures were technically defeated. Michigan voters refused to okay a 50% rollback in property levies, but approved a modest limit on state spending. Tax relief failed in Oregon, but only because voters split their support almost equally between two anti-tax amendments; as a result, neither polled the simple majority required for passage. Only in Nebraska, Colorado and Maryland were antitax and spending proposals clearly rejected...