Word: vera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, in her latest book, one of the characters is named Vera Stark...
...Sinai Hospital in New York City. The study gave patients L-dopa, an amino acid that stimulates dopamine -- the brain's mood-regulating chemical messenger -- in order to observe psychotic breakdowns, allegedly without advising them on consent forms of the extreme discomfort and high risk of the undertaking. When Vera Hassner, an advocate for the mentally ill, complained to the project director, she received a letter that stated, "Patients may experience symptom aggravation . . . It would not be advisable to talk to patients about psychosis or relapse . . . Talking to patients about psychosis or schizophrenia might cause unnecessary anxiety . . ." At a recent...
...York City. But places like Kursky station have become overrun by these panhandlers. Some are tubercular. Others are covered with skin ulcers and body sores. The existence of most is sufficient to provoke the spleen of passersby. "Disorder, dirt and a total lack of care for others," says Vera Alexeyev, a housewife who has lived in the city for more than 10 years, "is what strikes me most about Moscow today...
...Bill Weld played Vera Similitude as though shewere a gigantic doll. After this stopped beingamusing (about three minutes), Vera became aliability, since she was substantially lessbelievable than the rest of the characters),"wrote the Crimson reviewer. "Considering thepossibilities of the genre, Right Up the Alley, isa real...
...When Vera, then 12, wrote to President Reagan for help, says Blackman, "I made sure the Reagans would see Vera's letter by sending it through an intermediary from my previous years in Washington." The First Family took an interest in the Ziemans, who made national headlines during the historic 1988 Reagan-Gorbachev summit when Gorbachev sent a warning that the President not see the family. But after the Ziemans were once again denied emigration rights, Reagan intervened, and they were at last granted permission to leave the U.S.S.R. They moved to a tiny white clapboard house in Waltham, Massachusetts...