Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean to say that we will be secure if we are disarmed? Should we be naked, without weapons, just waiting for Israeli missiles to strike...
Sons are more likely than daughters to strike back violently. "Men by and large tend to act outwards and be more aggressive," says Ronald Ebert, senior forensic psychologist at McLean's Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. "Girls tend to internalize pain and blame themselves more." Abused girls often become bulimic or suicidal...
...most often the father -- usually a biological or stepparent rather than an adoptive or foster parent -- and the typical weapon is a gun kept in the home. These young people generally do not show any obvious sign of the mental disorders and self-destructive tendencies shared by children who strike out at strangers on the street or at nonabusive parents. In fact, dispatching their tormentor can be seen as an act of sanity, a last-resort effort at self-preservation. "They know what they're doing is wrong," says Dewey Cornell, a forensic psychologist at the University of Virginia...
Where will dining services strike next? Will we have to risk getting booted out the our house dining halls for lingering too long over meals...
Speaking at a Graduate School of Education panel discussion, Rudenstine said professors and graduate students need to strike an appropriate balance between teaching and research efforts but are often distracted by other concerns...