Word: retard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford medics hastened to ex plain that they recognized that "as a result of President Eisenhower's heart attack, his devotion to golf and Dr. Paul Dudley White, we are now accumulating fairly substantial evidence that physical activity will prevent or retard certain types of cardiovascular disease." And "almost everyone agrees that graded exercise will enhance recovery from most traumatic and surgical conditions." What the two were arguing was that widespread and unquestioning acceptance of exercise has impeded the sort of research that would help give doctors the knowledge that they need to prescribe the right activity...
...Bonapartist tradition. The child was only four when his father was sent to St. Helena, but it was already clear, says Stacton, that he was "preternaturally intelligent, as precocious as Macaulay or J. S. Mill." In Austria, however, he was placed with tutors who were instructed to retard his development as much as possible. After a few years of repressive treatment, the boy became withdrawn and watchful. At 16, he developed tuberculosis. At 21, ignored by his mother and surrounded by doctors who tried to make him eat 64 live snails as a pick-me-up, L'Aiglon died...
...state is already committed, notably in such important areas as mental health and education. The remaining money will be distributed among the cities and towns to hold down the astronomical rise of local property tax rates which has driven homeowners and investors out of the state. In order to retard the rapid increase in tax rates, municipal governments have had to cut back essential programs in health, education, and housing. Last month, for example, Mayor Collins declared: "We have tightened our belts to the breaking point...
Johnson added that the higher cost of credit that will result from the FRB's new anti-inflationary policy could retard the nation's rate of economic growth...
...para-military" approach to poverty. Their thesis is that war on poverty ignores a crucial "civilian perspective." The result of this defect is that programs which in theory are designed to increase self-reliance and independence, in fact tend to "enervate potential leadership," and to prevent criticism and retard innovation in favor of maintaining vested interests and the status...