1. Books provide children with ideas and a stimulus for play.

2. The new tax laws should act as a stimulus to exports.

3. The nutrient in the soil acts as a stimulus to growth/to make the plants grow.

4. The initial stimulus came from a letter in the newspaper.

5. Tax cuts provided the stimulus which the slow economy needed.

6. Foreign investment has been a stimulus to the industry.

7. Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.

8. Descartes received his stimulus from the new physics and astronomy of Copernicus, Galileo, and others.

9. The discovery of oil acted as a stimulus to industrial development.

10. Her words of praise were a stimulus to work harder.

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11. Interest rates could fall soon and be a stimulus to the US economy.

12. The book will provide a stimulus to research in this very important area.

13. Tax cuts provided the stimulus the slow economy needed.

14. It needs that extra-special final stimulus.

15. What was needed was the necessary stimulus.

16. National countercyclical Keynesian stimulus policies have simply disappeared.

17. They reach a point where even the smallest stimulus will trigger off a massive reaction.

18. When this is done, assimilation of the stimulus proceeds and equilibrium is reached for the moment.

19. A flat which had seemed to offer stimulus, satisfaction, retreat and self-sufficiency dwindled overnight into just somewhere to live.

20. A reduction in corporate tax should act as a stimulus to economic activity.

21. The very act of lying down in bed should provide a strong stimulus for sleep.

22. There are practical assignments which feature a wide variety of stimulus materials, in realistic contexts.

23. The human information processing system generally has few problems with spoken or written language, even when the stimulus is noisy or ambiguous.

24. It involves the use of an objection as a stimulus to buy.

25. The child seems unable to explore all aspects of the stimulus, or decenter the visual inspection.

26. This shows that the time to respond to a basic stimulus is fairly small.

27. Its overthrow was a necessary precursor of, and possibly stimulus to, the theories Charles Darwin was developing a century later.

28. Indeed the Faculty encourages interdisciplinary activity and recognises that much innovative work has derived from the intellectual stimulus of multidisciplinary study.

29. This depends on a huge number of different receptor proteins, each tuned to a different sort of chemical stimulus.

30. These latter, as in Wagner's theory, will play their part in lowering the associability of the target stimulus.

1. Books provide children with ideas and a stimulus for play.

2. The new tax laws should act as a stimulus to exports.

3. The initial stimulus came from a letter in the newspaper.

4. Tax cuts provided the stimulus which the slow economy needed.

5. Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.

31. This argument of course relies on the questionable assumption that eye movements adequately describe the distribution of attention to a stimulus.

32. The trigger is usually some external stimulus, not necessarily an obvious one.

33. We can suppose, however, that associations might be formed between the stimulus and the context in which it is presented.

34. The emerging thinking among many educational theorists is that music and the other arts may provide a powerful stimulus to learning itself.

35. The successful applicant will be required to provide academic stimulus and leadership in the Department of Political Science.

36. Video can now be used mainly as a source of information and as a stimulus to classroom activity such as debate and discussion.

37. The foundation of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in 1902 also acted as a stimulus.

38. Latent inhibition will show context-specificity when the only training given has been non-reinforced presentations of the stimulus in a given context.

39. A strong stimulus induces the passage of a greater number of impulses per second than a weaker one.

40. His opinion was that such a reduction would act as a stimulus to further development work,[] and recommended its immediate implementation.

41. Fear had raised their body heat, and the scent of him was a powerful stimulus her senses responded to.

42. Each device is an organism that reacts to stimulus and communicates with the others.

43. Once accommodation has taken place, a child can try again to assimilate the stimulus.

44. Or is it more akin to mechanics whereby a given stimulus produces an automatic response?

45. Telecommunications shares gained on expectations of earnings growth as well as the hopes for the government stimulus package.

46. Table 5 shows the results of a t-test between a stimulus and the value 0.5.

47. These higher totals were obtained through more generous subsidies and a stimulus to private building.

48. The nature of the stimulus for arrested development and for the subsequent maturation of the larvae is still a matter of debate.

49. Place a little acid on one side, and the amoeba will ooze away from the negative stimulus.

50. With no room for a fiscal stimulus in most countries, there seems little they can do to boost output and jobs.

51. When a complementary wavelength is used the response to the small spot only occurs at the offset of the stimulus.

52. Project Video stimulates active language use Project Video provides a stimulus for learners to produce their own projects.

53. The tercentenary of the first Bill, passed in 1688, has provided a stimulus for some earnest reflection.

54. It may also serve as an additional stimulus to develop non-addictive pain-killers.

55. How do employers react to the supposed increased willingness of workers to offer more labour services resulting from a monetary stimulus?

56. The encouragement given made for a great rapport with the class and gave a stimulus to improve the lectures.

57. When a bad habit is well established anxiety alone may act as the stimulus.

58. Arrangement of ideas on the board provides a stimulus for new ideas and lateral thinking. 4.

59. What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements.

60. Something, perhaps, about colonial vigour providing a necessary stimulus to decadent metropolitan culture?

61. In operant conditioning, the response should directly follow the stimulus.

62. However, lectures can be used as a stimulus, to present an overall view and to convey enthusiasm about the subject.

63. They wanted the stimulus package, much of which would have been spent in inner cities.

64. Figure 1 Proportion of continuations using plural pronouns co-referential with the protagonists in the stimulus sentence.

65. Presenting the target stimulus in a new context will eliminate some sources of internal input to the stimulus.

66. You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare.

67. When confronted with a stimulus, the child tried to fit the stimulus into an available schema.

68. And surfing is the most potent symbol - even stimulus - of that shift.

69. Indeed in subsequent chapters I shall again be concerned almost entirely with the way in which stimulus representations are modified by experience.

70. A stimulus thrusting towards one is more energetic and aggressive than a similar stimulus moving away.

71. For both printed and handwritten input[/stimulus.html], the stimulus alone is insufficient to unambiguously identify the text.

72. As soon as any information from a spoken stimulus reaches the word detectors, however, a process of candidate elimination begins.

73. There is no important causal connection between the reinforcing effect of a stimulus and the feelings to which it gives rise.

74. As we have seen, the stimulus given to the economy by Emancipation was at first limited.

75. The surge in new housing construction ought to provide a stimulus to the economy.

76. Recent reports stressed that training and education would be a stimulus to emigration.

77. Cognitive social psychologists assume that it is pan of human nature to reduce uncertainty by processing the external stimulus world through schemata.

78. They can be used for stimulus variation and they do reduce glare.

79. The actor is dependent on the stimulus of other faces and voices.

80. If he or she is successful, equilibrium is attained for the moment with respect to the particular stimulus.

81. Another response to a visual stimulus was Thomson's series of musical portraits of people such as Picasso and Aaron Copland.

82. The left part of each half shows the stimulus configuration which produced the pattern of impulses shown in the right part.

83. The ideas and techniques it set forth provided the initial stimulus for Romantic drama.

84. But it is unrealistic to suppose that they will act without public stimulus.

85. Many differentiated cells retain the ability to return to the cell cycle when confronted with the appropriate mitogenic stimulus.

86. In addition, the clarification of such issues could well provide the initial stimulus for a whole school language policy.

87. Another kind of pattern mask is a word mask, in which the backward-masking stimulus is itself an actual word.

88. The result is that a larger stimulus is required to trigger an action potential.

89. Education received what stimulus limited resources would allow, particularly primary education in the departments.

90. Alternatively, they may have been mistreated, and so only respond to that particular stimulus.

91. When linked to the attainment of specific learning outcomes it can provide pupils with a positive stimulus and aid to learning.

92. This stimulus lasted until the Finance Act of 1973 which introduced a major revision of the system of corporation tax.

93. Animals need to attend to and learn about a stimulus only when its implications for the future are uncertain.

94. The stimulus material was a short silent comedy film made by Mack Sennet around 1925.

95. S/he then pressed the button to present the stimulus card and start the timer.

96. However, such interaction is more effectively used in the drinking stimulus portion of the scenes than in the sensitization portion.

97. Reading is, as is shown in Chapter 1, thinking under the stimulus of print and picture.

98. The metal and machine industries benefited most directly, while the stimulus spread to the textile and other light industries.

99. This time, they had not needed the stimulus of an aphrodisiac.

100. The child's actions on the material world also provide a stimulus for conceptual development.

100. try its best to gather and build good sentences.

101. Two groups of rats received 14 sessions of habituation training in context A with a light as the target stimulus.

102. The immediate stimulus for this closure is the cost of replacing the signalling between Marylebone and Neasden.

103. A child presented with a visual stimulus tends to center or fix attention on a limited perceptual aspect of the stimulus.

104. In the postwar era, government stimulus to industrial development failed to rescue the city.

105. Much of the stimulus for growth therefore had to come from the state.

106. Gail was someone who needed the stimulus of a big city to maintain her mental vitality.

107. This phenomenon, in which an animal responds to a repeated stimulus by eventually disregarding it, is familiar to everyone.

108. A nestling's gape, or wide open beak, provides a stimulus to the parents to feed it.

109. Inaccurate forecasting and ill-judged investments by some electricity monopolies have been a salient stimulus towards liberalization.

110. This provides young learners with the stimulus and movement necessary to hold their attention and keep them enthusiastically involved.

111. The oesophageal distention caused by gastro-oesophageal reflux is a potent stimulus of transient upper oesophageal sphincter relaxations in children.

112. But it is certain that until recently a powerful stimulus was the superabundance of labour.

113. If repeated often enough, the stimulus will lead to uncontrollable inflation.

114. As elsewhere in the book these suggestions are not intended to be prescriptive but, rather, a stimulus for ideas.

115. One is that latent inhibition should not be interpreted as being the result of a loss of stimulus associability.

116. When carrying out interviews, artefacts or old photographs can sometimes provide useful stimulus.

117. The abolition of internal customs tolls in 1775 provided a major stimulus.

118. Annual changes in the weather are also the stimulus for millions of birds to migrate.

119. Other interference theories attribute latent inhibition to the effects of an association between the pre-exposed stimulus and its consequences.

120. The appointment of a new director gave the project immediate stimulus.

121. This is seen as an opportunity for developing software and technological industries and providers through the stimulus of opening up education markets.

122. National fears gave a minor stimulus to arguments for racial purity.

123. Purkinje and hippocampal neurons are noted for their plasticity because they show long-term changes in neural transmission following certain stimulus regimes.

124. Eating is an important stimulus for colonic motility in healthy human subjects.

125. The commitment also rules out any further fiscal stimulus, particularly as the budget deficit is already so high and rising fast.

126. All the forms of training used in the experiments described earlier in this chapter will produce stimulus differentiation.

127. For each trial, the experimenter placed a stimulus card in the tachistoscope and checked that all the switches were reset.

128. Unlike the natural sciences, in a liberal society the social ones did not even have the stimulus of technological progress.

129. Using an item of costume can be a powerful stimulus to initiate dramatic play.

130. It is natural for human beings to avoid responding to any new stimulus unless it somehow affects them personally.

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131. All that mattered was the retention of an active way of life that would maintain the stimulus to individual self-development.

132. A set of mime sketches under the title Speak Easy provide a different kind of stimulus to oral production.

133. The fact that other economies are expanding adds an external stimulus to any internal impetus provided by reflation.

134. In this way, the organism is able to differentiate between stimulus events and to generalize.

135. Poverty is a stimulus to industry.

136. One that acts as a provocative stimulus; a goad.

137. According to the cognitive learning theory, mastering knowledge results from the interaction between outside stimulus and the inner world of a cognitive perceiver.

138. In the short run, it appears that [ stimulus lending ] is risk - free.

139. Excess stimulus funds, including perhaps one-fifth of bank loans, went into the domestic stock market, fueling an abnormal 80.0% rise last year.

140. "Stimulus packages and bailouts only prolong the economic agony by creating the illusion of a solution, " said Barun Mitra, director of the Liberty Institute, an economic think tank in New Delhi.

141. Here we demonstrate by in vivo time-lapse imaging of optic tectal cells in Xenopus laevis tadpoles that enhanced visual activity driven by a light stimulus promotes dendritic arbor growth.

142. In an attempt to unwind its massive stimulus unleashed during the global financial crisis, China has over the past nine months raised interest rates four times and banks' required reserves nine times.

143. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here's what we already know we can expect in 2009: Chintzy raises, more layoffs, a weak economy -- and a new president with a stimulus package in his back pocket.

144. People close to the Obama's transition team caution against exaggerated expectations related to the stimulus plan.

145. At the same time, Wen indicated no roll-back in the fiscal stimulus that spurred a rebound: the government targeted a deeper budget deficit for 2010.

146. While the Fed wants to cut the unemployment rate, many economists say it has little chance of success as long as politicians fail to deliver fiscal stimulus or job programs.

147. Tertiary dentinogenesis is a protective reaction caused by dentin-pulp complex to respond to surrounding pathological stimulus.

148. Conclusion Soft acupoint and collateral channel massage can give positive stimulus to the premature and promote their early development.

149. Some neurons showed different polysynaptic responses evoked by the same stimulus intensity.

150. She's been talking about the economic stimulus, she had an event where they talked about the Equal Pay Bill that he recently signed...

151. When the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus are brought together over and over and over again, pretty soon the conditioned stimulus gives rise to the response.

152. But call these projects "stimulus," and suddenly a ship headed for the reef of economic disaster might sail through Congress flying the flag of economic recovery.

153. Optimism over President-elect Barack Obama's proposed stimulus plan has added to the more positive tone, helping the market rally in the face of an onslaught of dire economic and corporate outlooks.

154. Mr. Obama has said he wants Congress to pass an economic stimulus plan by mid-February.

155. Even though a simple make-up is permitted in public place, mother-to-be should choose cosmetics based on cream and liquid cream with no space or stimulus and with low alcohol.

156. As the US has a high marginal propensity to import, when the economy expands, more dollars flow out of the country, which is another form of global stimulus.

157. On Tuesday, President Obama signed into law the $787 billion economic stimulus plan. But there are concerns that the plan is too heavy on spending, Armiger said.

158. Through the simple tools of classical conditioning then, the shoe becomes a conditioned stimulus giving rise to the conditioned response of sexual pleasure.

159. This mass of sensually charged femininity will attract male visitors eager to contribute their economic stimulus.

160. He said making sure there was a more balanced economy in future was a key aim of the G20 meeting,[] just as much as co-ordinating strategies to exit from the current round of fiscal stimulus.

161. While the count picked up the paper he put spurs to his horse, which leaped in astonishment at such an unusual stimulus, and shot away with the rapidity of an arrow.

162. Vascular stasis: slowing of the blood in the bloodstream with vasodilation and fluid exudation to allow chemical mediators and inflammatory cells to collect and reond to the stimulus.

163. For the first time, we relate stimulus information to behaviour via sequences of categorisation -specific feature processing states in the brain.

164. Inflation hawks like Lacker worry that more stimulus could do more harm than good.

165. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which has lain quiet within the lover for a long time hitherto.

166. The political system has moved on to the automobile bailouts and the fiscal stimulus, but the original problem of trust in the financial system has still not been fixed.

167. Hubel and Wiesel have found cells that respond differentially according to the direction in which a stimulus is moved across the retina .

168. The result, a hodge-podge of numbers, could accelerate criticism that the stimulus isn't doing enough to reduce unemployment.

169. Moreover, governments are managerially challenged, with bank bailouts and huge stimulus packages to finance. A severe flu epidemic would open another front.

170. On Capitol Hill, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York described the job numbers as "shocking" and said they call for "a strong, deep and effective stimulus package."

171. "Bang for the buck" in this case could be defined as demand stimulus divided by budget cost.

172. Eventually the human volunteers exhibited a startle response upon seeing the first spider without the pain stimulus being administered.

173. The government released a system of economic stimulus plan to promote the economic resurgence.

174. Current models of associative learning explain nonlinear discrimination by assuming that people store stimulus information configural.

175. In a long-anticipated positive stimulus, rapid consensus, definitively swept the decadent days sluggish, out of a round of predictable prices.

176. This has been evident in the discussion of the stimulus among politicians and commentators in the week since the June job numbers were released.

177. This two-year stimulus program has gone through scientific feasibility studies and is supported by a detailed financial arrangement.

178. US Republican Senator Judd Gregg withdrew Thursday as the nominee for Secretary of Commerce, citing "irresolvable conflicts" with the Obama administration over its economic stimulus plan.

179. That particular class of stimuli is called the taste nerve fiber's best stimulus.

180. Well, you show the thing that would cause you to have the fear without the unconditioned stimulus.

181. These failures caused the stimulus enacted in February 2009 to be botched in both in its design and its administration, resulting in the discrediting of deficit spending as a response to depression.

182. The price of Mr. Bush's final budget, which of course includes the stimulus package, may well be paid in far higher taxes " under the new president next year."

183. A leading indicator of nonresidential construction, the Architecture Billings Index, has signaled contraction since January, amid tight credit and a limited boost from government stimulus.

184. Result:The nocuous stimulus could increase discharge frequency in the CM-PF and evoke delayed tail-flick reflex.

185. Thenegative chronotropic response depended on timing of the stimulus burst within the car - diac cycle.

186. Defending President Obama's economic recovery program, the largest peace-time stimulus in U.S. history, Summers said jobs will be created and confidence restored.

187. "This (the tax change) is a further evidence the government is pulling the plug on the stimulus policies introduced during the crisis," said Jeremie Capron, analyst at CLSA.

188. Methods:Stimulus pairs with identical(match condition)or different(conflict condition)colors were randomly presented to subjects.

189. Office of Management and Budget Director Jim Nussle says a slowing economy combined with the costs of an economic stimulus package, are the main culprits for the current spike in the deficit.

190. In his statement today, Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard said that if the economy continued to recover, conditions may support beginning to remove monetary stimulus around the middle of 2010.http://

191. This means that whatever boost to monthly consumption and output we expect from the stimulus, we are now currently seeing.

192. A reinforced trial is when the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus go together.

193. This removes the stimulus for further eosinophil and basophil recruitment more rapidly and halts the allergic response.

194. "Given current inflation trends, additional monetary stimulus at this juncture seems likely to raise inflation to undesirably high levels and do little to spur real growth," he said.

195. When we hear something and try to comprehend it, the stimulus from the auditory cortex is transmitted to Wernick's area, where it is then interpreted.

196. That's where you throw good money after bad, or as the government calls it, a stimulus package.

197. The conditioned response is a preparation for the unconditioned stimulus.

198. Counterconditioning: Conditioning intended to replace a negative response to a stimulus with a positive response.

199. The stimulus bill is not entirely out of the woods yet.

200. This model may better represent the cytokinesis process by the introduction of biochemical stimulus.

201. Prior to the 2009 stimulus act, very little external debt was utilized for wind power financing.

202. A sustained muscular contraction to a continuous tetanic stimulus usually indicates a TOF ratio greater than 0.7 and is an indication of adequate recovery from neuromuscular blockade.

203. Cantor indicated the Republican-controlled House would not support ideas like construction spending and aid to cash-strapped states that were in the 2009 stimulus bill.

204. These mechanoreceptor organs, like the hair cells in the human ear, mechanically transmit the stimulus of touch or sound waves.

205. But he chose a seemingly safer course: a medium-size stimulus package that was clearly not up to the task.

206. Such attacks go too far, because the stimulus prevented a steeper decline.

207. But, if the economy remains stagnant, look for liberals to begin pushing for a second stimulus, despite any scary numbers from CBO and the administration's Office of Management and Budget.

208. To cause an organism to respond in a specific manner to a conditioned stimulus in the absence of an unconditioned stimulus.

209. By using the receptive relaxation reflex of the stomach as a basis, artificial conditioned reflex has been established with the sound of an electric bell or a metronome as indifferent stimulus.

210. John Boehner, the House Republican leader, has been reduced to using his Web site to seek “credentialed American economists” willing to add their names to a list of “stimulus spending skeptics.”

211. The pain reactions induced by heat and chemical stimulus were significantly relieved by EMP.

212. The stimulus fading strategy was effective on functional vocabulary generalization for students with moderate mental retardation.

213. Establish a central coordinating office, databases and information exchange platform to strengthen the integration mechanism. We must make good use of positive stimulus.

214. The growth of China's massive economy is beginning to slow as stimulus funds peter out and aggressive monetary tightening measures take effect.

215. Classical conditioning - The process by which an individual learns to associate an unconditional stimulus with a conditional stimulus but receives no benefit from doing so.

216. The best way to make sure that a vast stimulus package doesn't turn into a federal boondoggle bonanza is for that money to go directly to private citizens and local governments.

217. The stimulus measure, signed into law by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, provides matching funds over two years to encourage utilities to start work on smart grids .

218. We suspect he will support even more fiscal stimulus than the $200 billion we have penciled into our forecast. Congress could move on this even before the change-over on January 20.

219. Most of the surge in apparent consumption also reflects Beijing's stimulus efforts and likely stockpiling of resources.

220. The priming effect in temporal order perception is a phenomenon in which a primed stimulus was judged as appearing before an unprimed stimulus.

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221. A key policy challenge will be careful management of exit from counter-cyclical policy stimulus.

222. "Stimulus is still a four-letter word for Republicans," MF Global analyst Chris Krueger said.

223. A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs — and suddenly industry was eager to employ those "unadaptable and untrained" workers.

224. Still, as even George Bush admitted at the time of announcing it, the stimulus will be no more than a temporary "booster shot".

225. It took China's central government until June just to count the cost of its massive stimulus, which added greatly to the huge debts now burdening its local governments.

226. Voters may decry the party - line voting on the stimulus bill.

227. Zhang told the all-party parliamentary China group in Westminster todaythat Beijing's stimulus package was already showing signs of re-energising the Chinese economy.

228. Twenty minutes after a single bolus dose, it may be unnecessary to antagonize the block when the train-of-four has returned to normal and fade is not present to a tetanic stimulus.

229. The heart monitor on the economy has started beeping again, apparently shocked into recovery by the dual application of bailout money and stimulus funds.

230. To read words that are new to us, we have to learn to associate a visual stimulus (a letter, or grapheme) with its corresponding auditory stimulus (the sound, or phoneme).

231. The interrelation of PG activity with softness, storability and susceptivity to stimulus from exo-ethylene was discussed.

232. Firstly, the paper models the multivariable discrete state-space model of the air transmission unit by the lab method, using multi-dimensional inverse M series as input stimulus signal.

233. The OMB numbers actually show an increase in the debt in 2012, turning into a small decrease in 2013, once the effects of the job stimulus are included.

234. For a small open economy, fiscal stimulus doesn't work at all.

235. This stimulus results in the secretion of corticotropin into plasma, stimulation of corticotropin receptors in the adrenal cortex, and release of cortisol into the blood.

236. We hypothesized that congruency will affect stimulus evaluation and compatibility affect response selection.

237. At the same time, negative stimulus must play a supplemental role. Only in this way can we inspire the sense of responsibility and pride of supervisors.

238. Where does the money come from for Tarp (Treasury's program to buy bad bank paper), the stimulus handouts and the cash for clunkers?

239. But I continue to hold on to the 2010 recovery forecast on the assumption that the benefits from the Obama stimulus package will fail to assure a self-sustained upturn in the economy.

240. But cutting spending in the middle of a recession is no solution -- especially when market participants conflate stimulus spending with bailouts of the financial system.

241. When Pavlov put food powder in the dog's mouth and saliva was generated, that's an unconditioned stimulus giving rise to an unconditioned response.

242. It is postulated that the type of protein in the diet influences directly the intrinsic capacity of the B lymphocytes to respond to an immunogenic stimulus.

243. After pulling out spending for later years, and the alternative minimum tax fix, the Obama package provides about $300bn a year in stimulus.

244. Fear conditioning reflex is a form of defense responses that subjects come to express to conditioned stimulus(CS)that are paired with unconditioned stimulus(US).

245. "The payroll tax holiday is the most important new stimulus in there, " said Chuck Marr,[http://] the director of federal tax policy at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

246. The imaging technique showed that some neurons were activated by the saccharine, or the conditioned stimulus, and others were activated by the lithium chloride or the unconditioned stimulus.

247. But the presence of the dog there is a conditioned stimulus and so you grew to be afraid of dogs.

248. "No one in the administration is talking about a second stimulus at this point." Those were the words of Rob Nabors, deputy director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget.

249. ST. CLOUD, Minn. — It was just five months ago that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. made the New Flyer bus factory here a symbol of the stimulus.

250. But if pain-free stimulus isn't popular, imagine how hard it would be to sell that package to the public.