Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Survey teams had inspected the inn in December. David Freeman, director of the state Department of Social Services, said yesterday. "They found nothing to cause concern. The place was clean and well-kept. "It was better than most," he added...
Celebrating his firm's 80th anniversary this year, Saji spent $7.5 million to set up a Suntory foundation that aims to better define for foreigners Japan's political, cultural and economic role in the world. That gesture probably was not purely philanthropic. Suntory's U.S. sales are minuscule, less than 50,000 cases last year. Saji's hope is that the foundation will enhance Suntory's presence-and possibly sales-in the world's richest and most sought-after market...
...helped at all. The trouble is that most therapies, including some outlandish ones, also claim some improvement for two-thirds of their patients. Critics argue that many patients go into analysis after a traumatic experience, such as divorce or a loved one's death, and are bound to do better anyway when the shock wears off. One study shows improvement for people merely on a waiting list for psychoanalytic treatment; presumably the simple decision to seek treatment is helpful...
...cost-cutting state legislatures. Also, fewer first-rate psychiatrists want to work where the possibility of cures is so remote. Foreign psychiatrists, some of them unlicensed, have flocked to these institutions. Many, to be sure, do extremely competent work. Spanish-speaking doctors, for example, have been able to provide better levels of care for Hispanic patients. Nonetheless, the overall quality of these foreign doctors has raised a clamor for legislation by Congress that would stop the influx of poorly trained aliens. If it passes, the state institutions may be left with fewer psychiatrists of any kind. That could be calamitous...
Since most people instinctively feel that the world gets worse, not better, the only basis of genuinely popular art is nostalgia. Grandma Moses supplied it-not out of any desire to create a product, but simply in order to maintain her own memories. "I like to paint old-timy things, historical landmarks of long ago, bridges, mills and hostelries, those old-time homes, there are a few left, and they are going fast. I do them all from memory, most of them are daydreams, as it were...