Word: director
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...compensate by snoozing late on weekends, but that makes up for only part of the shortfall. Over the months and years, some researchers believe, the deficit builds up and the effects accumulate. "Most Americans no longer know what it feels like to be fully alert," contends Dr. William Dement, director of Stanford University's sleep center. They go through the day in a sort of twilight zone; the eyes may be wide open, but the brain is partly shut down...
...into takeoff position." As the workplace becomes ever more technologically sophisticated, the price of disaster is higher. "So many more people can be hurt when a train engineer or a nuclear technician falls asleep in 1990 than when a stagecoach driver fell asleep in 1890," notes psychologist Merrill Mitler, director of sleep research at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, Calif...
...Give director Henry Bial credit for not sticking to conventional interpretations of Christmas. His Three Christmas One-Acts analyze the holiday season from three widely divergent perspectives--one uses the figure of Santa Claus to attack the selling of scientific knowledge, another examines the theme of generational rebirth through a sequence of Christmas dinners, and the third employs a Dr. Seuss story to stress that Christmas spirit is more important than gift-getting...
Vladimir Ivanov, deputy director of a think-tank that advises Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, told a Coolidge Hall audience of about 30 that a new world order could not be established until diplomatic tensions in the North Pacific are resolved. America, he said, can play an influential role in such a process...
Ivanov, deputy director of the Center on Asia and the Pacific at Moscow's Institute of World Economics and International Relations, said that "very important confidence-building measures between Moscow and Washington" led to last year's meeting between Gorbachev and South Korean President Roh Tae Woo in San Francisco...