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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public, doctors call them hypochondriacs, malingerers and hysterics. In private, physicians have been known to describe some of them as turkeys, hospital hobos and GOMERs (an acronym for Get Out of My Emergency Room). By whatever name, they are doctors' least-loved patients, individuals who use imaginary or self-inflicted physical illnesses to gain attention and manipulate others. The hostility displayed by physicians to these patients, known clinically as somatizers, is usually attributed to irritation and frustration. Now Psychiatrist Charles Ford of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine offers a more startling explanation for the rancor: physicians and somatizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Turning Illness into a Way of Life | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

Because the club was "inspired by ROTC cadets at Harvard," Deardorff said, to get approval he would be willing to compromise on the name of the organization, as long as it contains the acronym 'ROTC...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: New Name May Gain Approval For Proposed ROTC Group | 3/15/1983 | See Source »

...electromagnetic force. But bosons are more elusive than photons. Although nearly 100 times as heavy as protons, they could not be forged in any existing accelerator. While physicists in the U.S. and elsewhere began designing new machines, Rubbia, who divides his time between Harvard and CERN, the French acronym for the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, decided that there must be an easier, cheaper way. He persuaded CERN to let him modify its major accelerator, the Super Proton Synchrotron, to achieve higher energies. Instead of sending nuclear bullets, protons, barreling into a fixed target, the four-mile circular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On the Trail of the Bashful W | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

Regardless of undercoating or other protective measures taken by their owners, some Fiat cars rusted rapidly on U.S. roads in the 1970s. That problem and others led wags to proclaim Fiat an acronym for Fix It Again Tony. Partly as a result, sales dropped from a high of 100,511 cars in 1975 to last year's 14,113. Last week Fiat announced that it was pulling out of the American market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiat Finito | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

Reginald Gilliam, vice chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, on perceptions of black success: "Your degrees, your clerkships, your previous positions that often predate the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, all may be explained away by 'EEO,' a modern-day acronym for nigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Jan. 10, 1983 | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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