Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That non-abortion abortion verdict has left more than a half-filled ninth floor courtroom in Boston in shock...
...blocking up the corporate arteries." More than ever before, these middle-aged middle managers are being replaced by younger ones. The psychological toll, Jennings adds, is severe. "This is not part of the life-style for a middle-management person. It is literally a period of mental shock. They wonder...
...polls showed that he was the first choice of 63% of all Tory supporters; he had been endorsed by virtually every member of the Conservatives' shadow Cabinet, as well as by hundreds of local Tory associations across Britain. But the results of the secret ballot were a shock: maverick M.P. Margaret Thatcher (see box) received 130 votes to 119 for Heath and 16 for patrician M.P. Hugh Fraser (there were eleven abstentions). After consulting with friends and political aides, Heath announced that he would not be a candidate in the second and third rounds of voting-required because...
...industry's disaster, however, has come as a deep shock to the city. A shroud of resignation seems draped over Detroit's huge black community; activist leaders-who have been less active in recent years than they used to be-are encountering more apathy than anger on the streets, even though unemployment among blacks may be as high...
Three convicted child molesters, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union, are suing the Connecticut Correctional Institution at Somers for its use of electric shock to change sexual behavior. As part of the prison's aversion therapy program, shock is administered to the groin during a slide show of nude children, and stopped when slides of nude women are shown. The program is voluntary, but the three inmates allege that prisoners are denied parole unless they participate...