The fight has gone out of the once-robust boys from "Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamett's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of sharks in a small pond.
Ishmael, who narrates "Moby Dick", asks, "Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?
Evacuee Will, "thin and sickly looking, pale with limp sandy hair and dull grey eyes", is slowly turned into a bouncing, robust country boy by the gruff but tender administrations of Mister Tom (who sparks back to life himself as he cares for the abused Will).
Moreover, a few studies focusing on youth samples indicated that the 5-HTTLPR × Stress interaction effect was not robust, particularly among boys, and that it may be moderated by gender [ 21, 22].
In the case of the young school-age boy, more robust QI-related education during staff training, and regular staff competence review in our hospital could have identified and addressed many of the issues that resulted in this boy's death.
Though no sex differences were observed in virologic response, girls switched to nevirapine had a more robust immunologic response than boys switched to nevirapine.
The changes by age of attention problems among boys seemed robust with separated Confidence Intervals, while the age changes among the other factor were questionable due to overlapping confidence intervals.
Despite the poor sensitivity of the AYMH scale as a screening tool for depression and anxiety in boys, other robust psychometric properties of the scale merit its use as a screening tool for general mental health states in children and adolescents.
Sanford I. Weill, a brash, voluble man with a robust ego, has a Brooklyn boy's love for the Manhattan high life and likes to frame magazine cover stories of himself.
K-pop, or Korean pop music, also enjoys a robust following in Vietnam, where boy bands like the makeup-wearing SuperJunior are ludicrously popular, as are Korean soaps and fashions.
