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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY PORT AUTHORITY OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is a self-supporting, interstate, corporate organization of New York and New Jersey. It was created in 1921 to protect and promote the commerce of New York Harbor and... Read more |
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Timothy Flint
Timothy Flint 1780-1840, American author, b. North Reading, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1800, and entered the ministry. As a missionary he traveled up and down the Mississippi valley from 1815 until 1825 and recorded in Recollections of the Last Ten Years (1826) the frontier life he experienced. He... Read more |
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prince of Wales Henry
Henry, prince of Wales (1594–1612). Eldest son of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark, born at Stirling but immediately entrusted to the earl of Mar's guardianship. Following his father to England in June 1603, he impressed the crowds by his fine horsemanship and erect bearing. He had... Read more |
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Tony Beaver
Beaver, Tony, giant hero of tall tales told by lumberjacks of the Southern mountains, was “a sort of relative” of Paul Bunyan, whose mythical exploits he equals. In the Cumberland Mountains, one of his camps was located “up Eel River”; another was “way up in the... Read more |
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Eris
Eris , in Greek religion, goddess of strife. Angered at not being invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, she threw down the apple of discord (see Paris , in Greek mythology). Author not available, ERIS., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2006... Read more |
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Rump Parliament
Rump Parliament. What remained of the Long Parliament's House of Commons after Pride's Purge. Claiming to be the representative of the sovereign people, it assumed full legislative authority, and its early acts (January–May 1649) set up the tribunal that sentenced Charles I to death,... Read more |
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Pins and Needles
Pins and Needles (1937), a musical revue with sketches by various authors, Harold Rome (music, lyrics). [Labor Stage, 1,108 perf.] Originally mounted by the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union as a pleasant entertainment on weekends, with a cast recruited entirely from union members, this... Read more |
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Child psychology
Child Psychology Although parents and students of human development have been observing children for millennia, researchers in America and Europe began to conduct systematic studies of childhood behavior around the turn of the twentieth century. Prior attempts to codify normal development had... Read more |
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Measuring the ups and downs of pregnancy stress
...substantial interest in the effects of stress on pregnancy, few instruments are available...failure to measure pregnancy-specific stress will underestimate the degree to which...appraisal. Key words: pregnancy, pregnancy stress, uplifts, hassles 'For behold, the... |
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UNDER COVER AND UNDER STRESS DANIEL DISCOVERS THE UPS AND DOWNS OF WORKING...
Byline: Aaron Nathans The Capital Times Upon arriving in Madison in spring 1999, Daniel discovered that if he wanted to work, he needed a doctor. One of his friends knew a churchgoer with a contact in Chicago who made the proper arrangements for Daniel's initiation into the U.S. work force. One |
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Ups, downs keep coming for Cavs: Brown tries to stress positives while team...
...or bad, my guys have done something right," Brown said. "For them to be sitting where they are after some of the ups and downs this year, we have the third-best record in the East." It's been an up-and-down season on that front to say... |
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Learning to cope with ups and downs leads to success: Coaching tests mental...
...work the next week. But when you lose, you're excited to go to work and get better." To battle the stress caused by the ups and downs of coaching, coaches rely on the same stabilizing forces of their coaching staffs and families. "You... |
 "The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)")
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MATH SCORES RISE 'SOLDIERS KIDS: Students with heavy stress show big gains /...
...elementary schools saw dramatic ups and downs within the same building. Fountain...Baccalaureate school, saw a few modest ups and downs, yet it still scored among the...more room to increase. ELEMENTARY UPS, DOWNS Elementary ... |
 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Take a lesson in child stress; Being a kid should be pretty carefree but as...
...No doubt they were full of many ups and downs, including stress around homework and exams. But...new ball game. While a bit of stress may be a natural part of the learning...buckle down and giving them a stress overload? Keep talking ... |
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Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn., Amy Lindgren column: Dealing with stress is...
...helped her cope with the emotional ups and downs of the stresses she was enduring, it packed...transition are coping with multiple stresses, not just the work situation...in uncertain income and work stress, the situation can be ... |
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Bay Area Pottery Painting Studio Says Families Should Explore the Healing...
...presents a creative, stress-reducing bonding experience...Pottery painting can relieve stress in kids and adults because...can help lower levels of stress and depression associated...families go through life's ups and downs, and ... |
 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Still stress-free... but shopping for the dress could change all that;...
...store for me. Since setting the date and venue I have been in stress-free mode. I think I've gone through the eye of the storm...while everyone else around me gets excited. I'm saving my stress for the time I do go looking for the dress. I have booked into... |
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Living with stress
...s journey through life, one comes up with ups and downs, frustrations accompanied by stress. Stress is a usual product of a complex process that...Observer, over the situation students face with stress. His first words were that, ... |
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