Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. Protesters plan to enter Government office buildings-the Justice Department, HEW, Selective Service, the Internal Revenue Service and the Capitol-to talk to civil service employees, distribute leaflets, and drum up support for a strike May 5. Although organizers stress the nonviolence of their actions, they are prepared to sit in and picket if they are denied access to the buildings...
Under their proposal, which they stress is open to negotiation, the town would advance a medical student $2,000 a year at 3% interest for four years, provide and equip an office and guarantee a reasonable income once a practice is established. In turn, the student would repay the loan within three years of completing internship and military service, and would pledge to serve in the town as a general practitioner for at least a year. If the arrangement worked well, the students believe, the young doctors would stay for much longer...
THEIR DOUBTS increased when they found that a trained animal generally remembered its skills despite attempts to disrupt its cerebral electrical activity by intense cold, drugs, shock or other stress; only short-term memory?of recently learned skills?was impaired. There was an obvious conclusion: while short-term memory may be partly electrical, long-term memory must be carried in something less ephemeral than an electric current...
Cardboard Steel. Panel Chairman Fred Rogers, producer of one of television's leading children's programs, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, says: "Commercials stress that in order to play you need a toy, that your mental resources are not enough." Another panelist, Mrs. Joan Ganz Cooney, creator of Sesame Street, worries about the distortions in children's ads. "The product," she notes, "looks attractive on the screen because the cardboard materials are shiny and made to look like steel...
...seem ready to decipher print, Merrick teachers can match each one to any of 14 reading curriculums put out by ten different publishers. "Most kids can learn with any of several methods," says Primary Coordinator Karlyn Wood. "But they all learn in slightly different ways, and some need particular stress on certain skills. We're not regimented to any one way for every child...