Word: specially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda), a local reporter hired for her red hair, good looks, and ability to deliver a snappy, well-timed piece of fluff to end the evening newscast. After doing her usual competent but contentless job, she's told to spend the next day filming a special on energy at a nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles...
...House of Saud and the President in the White House. The Saudis now feel threatened by the distance they see between themselves and the Carter Administration. There is a sense in Saudi Arabia that a time of decision is rapidly approaching, a decision that could dramatically alter the special friendship that has existed with the U.S. Until recently, the Saudis believed that their interests were almost identical with those of the U.S., whether they concerned oil, investments or defense. It went so far, sums up a Saudi official, reflecting a widely held attitude in his country, that "we sacrificed...
...itself, was supporting the Administration's 1979 version of a hospital cost containment bill that passed the Senate last year but failed by one vote to clear a House committee. Vowing to lead a more determined fight for passage this time, the President plugged the bill at a special White House press conference last week. He cited an alarming statistic: only ten years ago, a patient paid $533 for an average stay in a hospital; the average hospitalization now costs $1,634. An HEW study found that Americans spent less than 3% of the gross national product on health...
...depend on any single factor. That is, neither geographical location nor financial status nor age is a determinant of happiness. The happy are slightly more likely to be married, but unhappiness is anything but epidemic among the single. Neither the young, the middle-aged nor the old have any special claim on happiness...
...speculates that man pushes ever onward, inextinguishably optimistic in the face of adversity, because of his biochemistry. The key to mankind's optimism, he argues, lies in those lately discovered substances called endorphins. These are the morphine-like chemical agents that the body itself produces, sending them into special sites of the brain and spinal cord to reduce pain. In this, says Tiger, "we may be on the way to finding a specific source for notions of personal wellbeing. Endorphins may not serve principally to reduce pain. Their major function may be to anesthetize the organism against responding...