Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, "By and large, the people who come to the alumni colleges are not the same as the alumni who come to the Harvard clubs, who are terribly active in alumni affairs like fund-raising and reunions." The alumni who return to the college, she says, respond through "intellectual stimuli rather than football games...
...pots and his cameras and the ever-growing draft of his complaint and maybe a roommate or two, and he wasn't too happy about it. "I'd kind of like to live in a House," he said wistfully, "but I tried it and there are just too many stimuli, you know? --Everywhere you look, there are signs and people and things to do, stimuli. I've tried it, and I just couldn't manage it--this is as close as I can come...
...being depressed about me, if the photographer's point about the stimuli didn't seem to apply--except in sports, Kirkland House has never been famous as a center of thriving. stimulating activity--the stuff about getting what you deserve certainly...
Republicans Beryl Sprinkel and Murray Weidenbaum insist that more fiscal and monetary stimuli would pep up the recovery only at the price of re-igniting inflation. The rate of consumer price increases has dropped from 12% in 1974 to 3.7% in March; that may have been a fluke, but Eckstein expects it to average 4% to 6% for all of 1976. Sprinkel, however, is concerned that a stepped-up recovery would send inflation up again in 1977, forcing the Goveminent to crack down on demand; that would cause production to fall and unemployment to rise once more...
...doctors determined whether this lack of brain activity was caused by a drastically lowered body temperature, by drugs (tranquilizers, heroin, or barbiturates mixed with alcohol can result in a flat EEG), or by injuries or ailments. They also tested the patient's ability to respond to various stimuli (most unconscious people, for example, will blink at a loud noise) and found out whether they could breathe unaided. When temperature and drugs had been ruled out and there were no signs after 30 minutes that the brain was working, it was decided that a patient had indeed suffered brain death...