Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure it would appear before the elections. This first publication of the Congress Project is a compendium of stale gossip, common knowledge and worn proposals. Although the premise for the report is that an informed citizenry will act, the glut of information may be an impediment rather than a spur to the reader...
Nader stoutly defends the project, on which he has spent $200,000 and employed 1,000 paid writers and volunteers. His hope is that the effort will spur Congress to hold a special session next year specifically devoted to its own reform. Congress, he says accurately enough, has abdicated its constitutional power to the Executive Branch, and the process is quickening at a "geometric rate." He asserts that the U.S. is in the throes of a "devolution of the three-part system of Government" as a consequence. He admits that it will be hard to rally wide public support...
Brenda is typical of the bovver birds. "They seem very unmoved by it all, very detached," says a probation officer. "Many of their attacks are for pure game, mostly done on the spur of the moment." Says Trevor Gibbens, forensic psychiatrist at the University of London and the author of several research studies of girl offenders: "Girls who used to grow up in relatively sheltered homes now freely roam the streets just like the boys have always done. It is a natural result that, in becoming equal, they have become equal in all areas, including violence...
...books spur less public debate than medical texts. But there are exceptions to that rule. The authors of The Anatomical Basis of Medical Practice sought to call attention to "certain landmarks the students must recognize" by including in their anatomy book a few photos of nude women splashing in the surf or posing seductively on swings. The resulting volume is closer to Playboy than to Gray's Anatomy. The reaction to the book was predictable. In a letter to the 1,000-member Association of Women in Science (AWIS) of which she is president-elect, Dr. Estelle Ramey...
According to popular opinion, the drug culture is yet another spur to sexual activity. "Once you've taken drugs and broken that rule, it is easier to break all the others," says a senior at the University of Pittsburgh. "Drugs and sexual exploration go hand in hand," insists Charlotte Richardson, a lay therapist in Atlanta. But many doctors doubt that drug use increases sexual experimentation (whether marijuana increases sexual pleasure is even a matter of some dispute). Stanford Psychiatrist Donald Lunde, among others, believes that drugs do not lead to sex but that depression causes many teen-agers...