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However, DeBusschere did not play in the second half, when the Lakers broke open the game with a 20-5 spurt in the first six minutes...
...Nixon's anti-inflation program will be settled at the supermarket check-out counter. Regardless of what economists and politicians can show on their cost-of-living charts, the inflation index that means most to the consumer is the cost of food. President Nixon, deeply embarrassed by a spurt in the most basic price of all during a period of wage-price controls, mobilized his Phase II machine to fight the battle of the porkchop bill...
...registering candidates for the municipal elections on the West Bank that Israel has ordered to take place March 28. Hussein mentioned the elections only in passing, but it was obvious that he hoped to influence them by making his proposals an issue. Presumably he has. In a final spurt of civic consciousness, 141 Arab candidates entered the elections, which some West Bank leaders had initially wanted their people to boycott...
According to some experts, this long-lasting effect of hormones administered or secreted before birth may help explain why boys are more aggressive than girls even during their early years when both sexes appear to produce equal amounts of male and female hormones. Other observers have suggested that the spurt in male-hormone production at puberty could be one of the causes of delinquency in adolescent boys, but there is no proof that this...
...studies that had been made of women's motivation for achievement showed they had high anxiety. Reasonably certain that this meant women were afraid of competition, Horner decided nonetheless to test that assumption. Putting men and women in competitive and noncompetitive situations, she found that males showed a spurt of motivation in competition. Females did not. It was anxiety about competition that apparently held the women back...