Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classification," Powell said. Insisting as well that any affirmative-action plan must be "narrowly tailored" to achieve its ends, he went on to signal an inclination to reject race-based firing schemes for being too harsh on the innocent, but to look more favorably upon some hiring plans. A brief separate concurrence by Justice Byron White also stressed an aversion to layoff plans...
...class of stubborn undergraduates. "I'm not God. If you have a crystal ball, if you can tell me what's going to happen, fine. But I can't." Asked directly whether he would pledge to serve a full four years as he promised last time, Cuomo was uncharacteristically brief. "No," he replied...
Some 240 patients and 28 therapists are involved in the ongoing project at three sites: the University of Pittsburgh; the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City; and George Washington University in Washington. The study compares the effectiveness of two forms of brief psychotherapy with treatment by a standard antidepressant drug, imipramine. The drug got quicker results, but the talk therapies caught up after three months. By the end of the 16-week test period, all three treatments had eliminated serious symptoms of depression in more than half the patients...
...more effective than cognitive behavior therapy or interpersonal psychotherapy. Those therapies were chosen because they are commonly used for depression and can be readily taught to therapists from official manuals. Says Morris Parloff, a retired psychologist who helped frame the study: "We picked them because they are brief and very definable, from different approaches, and both have been tested and found effective...
...patients lost their serious symptoms, although they had no treatment. Many depressions wax and wane or clear up on their own, and the sheer act of deciding to enter a therapy program may sometimes be more beneficial than the therapy itself. The way to catch any such brief psychological boost is in follow-up studies. The NIMH project is testing patients after six, twelve and 18 months, with the end of the tests due by December. Three-quarters of these results are already in, but Elkin has not looked at them yet. She says she has her hands full just...