Word: versa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Going from most to least important--or maybe vice versa--you could list them like this...
...absence of an authoritative voice can be explained. Gordon's concern with the theme of friendship leads naturally to this condition. Friendships are relations with shifting support, one woman depends on another and then vice versa. If relations are in flux we might not expect a simple weighty voice...
...effect did not trust the people they appointed" to their Cabinets, and therefore relied on a large presidential staff to "keep the Cabinet in line." In contrast, he asserted, Reagan's Cabinet officers would be "advocates of the Administration's policies to their departments," rather than vice versa. According to Weinberger, the officers would give uninhibited advice to the President. But once a decision had been reached, they would carry it out "regardless of the blandishments of special interests or the threats of congressional committee staffs or the desire for individual prominence or the fun of being referred...
...cats, which he says confirms the existence of the independent dream center in the mammalian brainstem. "REM occurs in cats when the entire brain except the brainstem has been destroyed," he says. The cat research has shown that REM causes the brain to create the dream and not vice-versa, Hobson says. "Obviously, we cannot tell if a cat is actually dreaming, but by inserting a microscopic electrode into a cat's brain, we can measure the electrical signal as it passes along a single nerve cell--the impulse in the eye fires before the impulse in the brain." Hobson...
...daily administrative problems were the least of the counselors' worries. Even when the program itself ran smoothly, it was never an easy summer. The community division which the counselors discovered on Day One never abated. Codman park kids beat up Washington kids and vice versa; at least ten of the original 45 children dropped out midway through the program because of peer pressure...