Word: stimuli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview last night, Klupinski's father offered a more cautious assessment of his son's responsiveness to stimuli...
...economy is now structurally damaged and incapable of bouncing back anytime soon. Hanging ominously over every sector -- individuals, business and government -- is a crippling pile of debt that amounts to $10 trillion, double the size of the entire U.S. economy. Consumers, far and away the most powerful stimuli in the economy, seem determined to slash spending and pay off loans. The government said last week that consumer installment debt fell 3% in June, the sixth drop in seven months...
Initial experiments concluded that direct injection of the two amines did not, however, affect the muscles in different ways. Instead, they "primed" the muscles, and made them more responsive to stimuli, Weiger said...
...There is evidence, and we believe, that response in the brain to stimuli can trigger this," Kirby said, while emphasizing that the exact mechanism behind the fatal attack is not well known...
...research conducted by Kirby and her co-workers, which involves animal rather than human subjects, they are trying to find out how stress hormones, such as the neural hormone norepinephrine, released from nerve endings in response to certain stimuli, affect the functioning of the heart...