Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freud saw it, dreams provide psychic gratification for suppressed desires. Researchers in the growing science of sleep-watching suspect that their mysterious function is much broader than that. The latest findings, as presented to the annual meeting of the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep, are beginning to confirm the link, hitherto experimentally unproved, between dreams and conscious functioning. In dreaming, the experts now surmise, the healthy mind brings its emotional experience to bear on the stresses of the day and forges new mental mechanisms for dealing with them when they recur...
...rentals, it is University policy to hold our rents below the current market for comparable properties. The Wilson Committee indicated that this policy is being carried out. We will ask an independent consultant to confirm that this is the case...
...only recovered from the 1966 squeeze, seems certain to suffer again (see BUSINESS). Car sales may also slow down. But no one seems very alarmed. "I don't see any drastic reaction," says Economist Beryl Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "It just seems to confirm the view that this time the policymakers really mean business...
...that man is naturally good, humane, decent, just and honorable, but that corrupt and wicked institutions have transformed the noble savage into a civilized monster. Destroy the corrupt institutions, they say, and man's native goodness will flower. There isn't anything in history or anthropology to confirm the thesis, but it survives down the generations...
...vote on Lunn was 4-3 with two councillors voting present. A majority vote of the council is needed to confirm an appointment. On Livernash the vote was 3-3-3. Councillor Thomas H. Mahoney voted in favor of the Lunn appointment and present on Livernash...