Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice is, as Senator Kennedy has said, between two philosophies of government, if non-government can be called a philosophy. The Republicans offer a government that speaks only when spoken to; whose method of operation is that of reaction to stimuli; whose policy toward strangers is to set up a Neighborhood Protection Association; whose policy toward enemies is to slap and howl when stung and to exchange insult for insult; whose policy at home is to throw the dogs a crumb when their barking becomes too loud. The Democrats, on the other hand, offer the promise of systematic programs...
Meanwhile the Government continued to provide an expansive combination of fiscal and monetary stimuli. With its big budget deficit, the Government has been pumping many billions more into the economy than it has taken out in taxes. The Federal Reserve Board helped by expanding the money supply about 7.4% last year, making it considerably easier than in the previous few years for most businessmen and consumers to borrow...
...practitioners like Erik Erikson and Richard Ellmann in regard to the interpretation of personality. Film biographies always show their subject in conflict with some external foe like the Boers or Lord Salisbury, but never in conflict with themselves. But to a Churchill freak like myself, any kind of visual stimuli is welcome which recalls a man whose abilities would put any post-war American politician to shame, particularly the current resident of the White House who is fond of comparing himself to Churchill when he isn't calling Nguyen Van Thieu the Churchill the Churchill of Asia...
Biochemists Robert M. Macnab and Daniel Koshland were investigating a characteristic that S. typhimurium shares with many other bacteria: it responds strongly to changes in external stimuli. If, for instance, a hostile substance is introduced into its surroundings, the bacterium uses its flagella -long, hairlike appendages-to swim away from it. But if something attractive is placed near by-say, the sugar, glucose-it will move toward it. How the bacterium chooses its direction is still not fully understood, but it apparently makes its way on a trial-and-error basis. Tumbling to and fro, it senses that taking certain...
...brain. According to some experimenters, the presence of the male hormone testosterone in the fetus may "masculinize" the brain, organizing the fetal nerve centers in characteristic ways. This possible "sex typing" of the central nervous system before birth may make men and women respond differently to incoming stimuli, Sociologist John Gagnon believes...