Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenure in Social Studies, which now has no tenured positions. The concentration has been repeatedly demoralized when dedicated junior faculty members have left for tenured positions elsewhere. The report of the faculty committee conceded that the ability to offer junior faculty tenure is "an important incentive to performance and stimulus to morale...
...conflict between nationalism as a stimulus to revolutionary activity and its contradictory effect as a barrier to increased liberalization has defined a constant paradox in Russian history, Ulam said. "The picture today has something to do with a stiffening of the Soviet regime--it is appealing to the national pride of the people rather than attempting reform," he added...
Others worry less that private funds will cramp styles. "Art has always had little to do with the economic currents of society; perhaps the cuts will provide an anxiety stimulus," Irving Karp, owner of the OK Harris gallery, in New York's SoHo, says. "I don't believe that there will be change in the genre of the works produced in the theater," Bob Moss, producer of March of the Falsettos, and current executive director of Playwrights Horizons, adds. "We have always produced what we believe in, what we know how to produce, rather than what we thought might make...
...nation's leading banks last week raised their prime lending rate to 20.5%, up 3½ percentage points in one month. Moreover, last week's report that the gross national product had surged 8.4% in the first quarter seemed to weaken the case for the economic stimulus that the Administration argues a tax cut would bring...
...that he is a stimulus-response psychologist...