Word: testes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slemrode adds that the bureau's president doesn't tell people what to think but Slemrode suggests that preconceptions can influence results. "My prediction (of the economy's next move) depends on all the assumptions I've had to make. Because that's true I try to test the model with many different assumptions," he explains. Slemrode says that basic to the whole project is the conservative assumption that all markets stay in equilibrium...
...people who can do it. We have more people applying and more people here than ever before. That has got to mean something." With a tenuous balance among University, federal and student funds, a Harvard education remains within the reach of most qualified applicants. But maintaining those opportunities will test the fiscal juggling abilities of Harvard administrators and students in the years ahead...
...Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Solomon Snyder and his colleagues, Ian Creese and Dr. Larry Tune, have developed a simple blood test that should be especially useful in treating the nation's estimated 2 million to 5 million schizophrenics. Already tested on 30 patients, it is based on pioneering studies of the brain's receptors, or molecular sites to which its own drug-like chemicals bind-almost as if they were keys in a lock. A blood sample from a patient is added to a tube containing animal brain tissue and a radioactively tagged chemical known to bind...
...Harvard, Dr. Joseph Schildkraut and his colleagues have devised a urine test that can distinguish types of depressive disorders and hence indicate the best available drug for treatment...
...comparing results from more than 30 patients suffering varying degrees of depression, they were able to establish two groups: those below a certain urine level responded to relatively low dosages of a test drug; those above either did not respond or had to be given stiff dosages...