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...instant access is very important, especially for bulimics, according to McKenna. "The key thing is to avert a binge," she says. "Often that can be done by contact with another human being. Most people binge at night, when a psychiatrist or counselor isn't available. The cycle might be interrupted by just making a call," says McKenna...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where to Turn for Help | 4/16/1986 | See Source »

...officials agreed to help the U.S. reduce the value of its currency in an effort to trim the dangerously high American trade deficit, which hit a record $148.5 billion last year. These industrial powers, known as the Group of Five, were convinced that bringing the dollar down could help avert a trade war. At the time, the U.S. Congress was particularly incensed about America's $50 billion deficit with Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of the Rising Yen | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...ruling Socialists also pulled out their biggest gun. In a televised, prime-time appearance, President Francois Mitterrand appealed for support for his party in order to avert "a kind of disorder, a very great difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France the Leap in the Dark | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...avert your eyes yet. Mulvoy next drops his guise as sports media mastermind, revealing himself as none other than America's premiere critic of contemporary art: "what I did give you is tasteful pictures of the highest quality by one of the greatest photographers in the country." No doubt, it takes a true cultural luminary to appreciate the aesthetics--to see the symbolism, perhaps? Oh, I'm sorry Mark, we wouldn't want to read too much of our sexist society into an innocuous swimsuit-unclad photomontage...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Skinsuit Issue | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

...first mistake on the planners' part was not to make our nation's No. 1 the University's also. The rationale for giving Prince Charles the limelight might well have been the same as the no-degree ruling: the attempt to avert protest from general dislike of Reagan. But the University must take the Harvard Community for avid readers of People, if it thinks it can wow the crowds into forgetting the symbolism of a historic moment...

Author: By Henry E. Smith, | Title: Don't Snub Ron and Charles | 12/4/1985 | See Source »

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