Word: aloofness
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...found the treatment beneficial are rushing to try to prove the dissenters wrong. An ugly war of words has erupted. Dr. Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist who has written four books critical of electroshock and who favors therapy and human services instead, told TIME that shock is used by "cold, aloof guys who seem to feel more comfortable with machines than patients." Dr. Harold Sackeim, who runs the department of biological psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, responds that caregivers who forgo the use of electroshock and other biological methods to treat the suicidally depressed "are going...
...next five years, and a dedicated transmission line south to capitalize on American demand has also been on the provincial wish list. Similarly, Ontario and Quebec are counting on becoming bigger players in the U.S. market to generate profits needed to build plants at home. "No one can stay aloof from this market," says an Ontario Power Generation official. "You can't just integrate on one level. You have to work out how price, supply and environmental issues fit together." But the goals depend on an upsurge in U.S. power-grid investment that can be assured only by more complete...
...other experts insist these are not clear-cut violations and that Supreme Court Justices cannot be expected to remain totally aloof from the real world. What's more, recusals come with costs of their own. "The people who are appointed to decide the country's important business take themselves off the case and don't do their duty, then you get a result that can be skewed in the other direction," says Georgetown University law professor Paul Rothstein...
...effected by the work the council has done to get better lighting in former campus trouble spots, like DeWolfe Street. Nor does he care about the its work with the Coalition Against Sexual Violence. Moreover, the gentleman appears cloistered from the larger undergraduate body, as he seems aloof to the fact that the council's Finance Committee doles out money to more than 100 students groups in a timely fashion each and every semester. This, too, seems not to have passed under the gentleman's radar...
...senior citizen. He's a very, very smart duck," he says of his winged friend. "He's a character. He's very astute, serious and very, very cautious. He's gregarious but he can be aloof at times...