Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rambling soon becomes coherent as he explains his theory of man's three brains: the "reptilian" brain which programs man for his needs for food, shelter, and copulation and the general survival instinct; the "affective" brain which contains the memory and responds appropriately to pleasure and pain, reward and punishment; and the "associative" brain which connects events from the past and enables us to use language. Laborit doesn't really like this third brain, also known as the cerebral cortex, because it allows humans to be programmed by society; it gives us the power to create "excuses, reasons, and alibis...
...Williams, officials held two prayer meetings and replaced half a day of classes with seminars on campus race relations. A reward of $1,000 was offered for information about the cross burners...
...victims share certain similarities: all are age 15 or younger, all are black, all come from poor families, and all but two are male. Yet no clear pattern connects them or confirms that they were attacked by the same killer or killers. Despite the offer of a $100,000 reward and what Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown calls "the most intensive investigation in the history of this city," the Atlanta police remain stymied...
...sleeplessness and maverick guests on the lobster shift, and many veterans have graduated to higher things. John Chancellor was anchorman of Today before he joined NBC's Nightly News in 1970, and Barbara Walters had the same job before she jumped to ABC in 1976. As a reward for her a.m. heroics, Pauley already has been given the anchor of NBC's Sunday evening news, and Brokaw is a leading candidate to replace Chancellor when he leaves. Hartman is expected to ask for a chance to do more prime-time work when his contract expires next year...
...believe fervently that Ronald Reagan should be President. In 1976 he ran the Californian's valiant but losing attempt to win the nomination from Gerald Ford. This year he again chaired Reagan's presidential campaign committee and again nominated him for President. Now he is getting his reward by being allowed to put into effect a unique plan he has been urging on Reagan for 18 months. Although he holds no formal position of leadership among Republicans, Nevada's Paul Laxalt, 58, has suddenly become one of the most powerful men in Washington, with privileges and responsibilities...