Word: somes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The U.S. Geological Survey scientists mapped only a small section of this fault zone-in Arkansas' Mississippi and Craighead counties-but they suspect it continues north for some 100 km (62 miles), through Arkansas and northwestern Tennessee. There the fault system veers off past New Madrid and probably continues...
Bird herself had called for the investigation last Nov. 24. A liberal 43-year-old activist with no prior judicial experience, she had been opposed by law-and-order conservatives and some of the legal establishment ever since her surprise appointment in 1977 by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. By...
The scene in which Actor Jack Nicholson receives an electric shock treatment in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest reinforced the notion that shock therapy is a cruel and barbaric anachronism. Partially as a result of the movie, the popular image of electric shock, which...
Critics also charge that patients -some of whom are really incapable of giving informed consent-are coerced into agreement. Says Psychiatrist Lee Coleman of Berkeley, Calif: "I've never seen a single case when valid consent was given." But some patients claim the pressure comes mostly from family and...
Volcker's policy continues to earn raves abroad. The dollar's decline, which had precipitated the action, has been at least temporarily checked. Despite nervousness in world financial markets caused by events in Iran, the dollar has been strong for the past month. Typically, one Frankfurt banker says...