Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...associated in the popular mind with polar explorers and Everest ascenders, is a real and insidious danger whenever it is freezing outside. Just ten minutes of exposure can injure ears, cheeks, tips of noses and ungloved fingers. Smoking increases the risk, since nicotine constricts blood vessels, hastening the cooling process. Nor should one drink alcohol before venturing outside. Booze opens up the blood vessels and accelerates heat loss from the body...
When Warnke's confirmation hearings begin this week, he is likely to be "scarred up a bit" by the process, in Humphrey's phrase, bul he is expected to be approved by the Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate. If so, one of his first jobs could be to accompany his good friend Vance to Moscow in March to discuss, among other topics, the resumption of the stalled SALT talks and the possibility of starting discussions about reducing conventional arms...
...before that in Damascus for similar talks with President Hafez Assad. Says one political observer in Amman: "The moderates want Hussein to 'leash' the West Bank to keep it from becoming too radical or too dangerous. They don't want to go through the agonizing process of negotiating Israeli withdrawal only to have a militant Palestinian regime make trouble and wreck the peace...
...Roots is literally true - and much of it undoubtedly is. What matters is that, despite a certain mythic stereotyping, Roots is plausible. The only pertinent generalization about slavery may be that it was an immense evil. Roots gives that evil a brutal immediacy. In that process, the years of bondage have assumed a new psychological pertinence for both blacks and whites. Oddly, many whites seem to feel not guilt but an unexpected shock of identification with blacks, while blacks experience a larger shock of pride at glimpsing a complete vision of where they have been and what they have overcome...
However, far greater than any of this is the courage involved in her whole developmental process. Her team was without a diver, a situation which would have crippled them for the season. But Sue stepped in, learned the dives, and started scoring points and beating more experienced opponents. Her performance has been no less than incredible...