Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their study, published in Archives of General Psychiatry, one group of patients was treated by scientists with the drug Prozac while those in the second group met regularly with a therapist who worked on helping them acquire control over their senseless fears and urges through deconditioning exercises. In 10 weeks, about two-thirds of the patients in both groups had improved. Brain scans of responsive patients showed a decrease in metabolic activity in the brain's right caudate nucleus...
...President Charles M. Vest sent a letter to the Institute's community Monday, calling the crime "a random, totally senseless murder." Vest urged students and staff to discuss the murder and to seek counseling if necessary...
...them. But the fact that they are illegal makes the price artificially skyrocket. The bottom line: Legalization will cause a small increase in drug usage and a huge drop in prices. The lower price is the key reason for legalizing drugs. At that point, gang warfare becomes senseless. Why fight over something that now pays us $25 that used to net us $2000? And where do dealers get the big weaponry without the heavy cash flow? Nowhere...
...makeshift stand selling $5 and $10 T shirts emblazoned with the slogan: JUSTICE FOR THE LA 4. LET MY PEOPLE GO. And who are the L.A. 4? They are the very men who ripped Denny from the cab of his truck, then robbed, bludgeoned and kicked him senseless on the afternoon that the riots began...
...with the crowd -- one of the lads. He experiences perverse satisfaction on one occasion when he is included in the Red Brigade's order of battle. In the crowd riots at the World Cup in 1990 he is mistaken by the Italian police for a ringleader and beaten senseless. It is a punishing climax to an eight-year quest...