Word: research
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, ACT, Amazon.com Congressional Quarterly, ABC, Nielsen Media Research, New York Times
CHEERS! You may not need Dutch courage after all. Research on patients with "social phobia"--a disorder that leaves people terrified of everyday human interaction--shows that the idea of drinking may relieve anxiety just as well as actual drinking does. Patients in a study who thought they were guzzling vodka prior to speaking in public reported less fear and anxiety than those who thought they were handed a placebo--regardless of what was in the glass...
...blood-sugar levels were low enough to cause loss of coordination or blacking out. If your blood glucose drops below 65 mg/dL, don't drive. AIDS ALERT There's no longer room for debate about whether an HIV-positive mom should breast-feed or bottle-feed an infant. New research shows that infected breast-feeding moms run at least a 10% risk of transmitting the virus to their babies over the course of two years. The greatest chance of infecting a baby: during its first five months of life...
...tried on, smelled, tasted or prodded to determine how good they are or whether they fit. That is turning out not to be the case...so far. Americans still seem reluctant to double-click themselves into six-figure financial commitments. Though prospective borrowers are happy enough to do their research by computer, just 21% of folks polled for the 1999 Fannie Mae National Housing Survey said they would definitely or probably try financing a new home over the Internet. That's an increase of only 1 percentage point over three years ago. This year, Forrester Research projects, the Internet will...
...that the lean, mean but powerful U.S. economy owes its strength to the armies of temporary employees that make up a larger and larger percentage of the work force. But this time conventional wisdom is wrong, according to economist Max Lyons of the Employment Policy Foundation, a Washington-based research and education group. Temps make up only between 1% and 2% of the total employed, Lyons argues in a recent study, and most of them do not temp for long; 75% of those who work temporarily do so for no more than a year. Lyons reveals, too, that long assignments...