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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...woman in the Coop decides not to transgress. She settles for safe romance, rather than any sort of subversive statement about her relationship to the man she tells me is her "soon-to-be" husband...
According to Gallant, the Human Subject Committee's primary goal is to protect subjects from any sort of "risk...
...asked what sort of risk was involved in researching sexual behavior. Gallant replied that the committee was concerned with ensuring confidentiality, since information about individuals' sexuality and sexual behavior are very sensitive...
...decline in that sort of mutual confidence is a sign of a contracting economy. Says Carl Steidtmann, chief economist for Management Horizons, a retailing research firm: "The consumer looks at his own situation and feels somewhat ill at ease, slows down his accumulation of debt and steps up his savings rate." Businesses, which try to gauge the confidence and appetites of ( their customers, currently see very little to like. As a result, business borrowing is growing at a slower pace than at any other time during the past decade...
...once chirpy and cynical, Roger & Me is the rare documentary film that doesn't make viewers feel they are being force-fed a civics lesson. But perhaps the movie is no documentary. Its tone, which tempers populist anger with deadpan facetiousness, is heard in much modern comedy -- sort of Laid Off with David Letterman. Moore classifies the film as "a dark comedy, social satire, 'mockumentary...