Word: cheered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly works, but 2) no one will ever be able to prove it. Studies designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of psychotherapies have often bogged down in procedural squabbles and in doubts that anything remotely scientific can rise from such a subjective field. But now therapists have a study to cheer about: a six-year, $10 million effort concluding that talk therapy can be just as good as drug therapy in treating depression. Exultant scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, which funded the project, hail it as a "landmark," and Psychiatrist Jerome Frank calls it the "standard against which...
...wake of the Falklands defeat, Argentina got rid of its ruling generals, and as far as many Americans were concerned, that was it. But helping Argentina's fragile democracy survive is infinitely more difficult and demands far more skill--and more money. It is easy enough to cheer the new regime because it upholds civil liberties and human rights, but it is far harder to help its struggling economy--and part of that help should include recognition that the debt burden borne by Latin America must somehow be eased if it is not to lead to political explosions...
...bright spot for accountants is Washington's continuing effort to revamp the U.S. tax code. Says Arthur Bowman, editor of the Public Accounting Report: "Every time Congress simplifies things, everybody needs more help in figuring out their taxes." If tax reform passes, accountants may have something to cheer about in an otherwise gloomy situation...
...SIXTEEN DANCERS enter into the wide open clearing formed by the audience seated on the floor who become, like the chorus in classic epic, the inclusive margins of the ritualized performance. Throughout the evening, which proceeds largely in the fashion of oral narrative, the audience is incited to sing, cheer, lament, and otherwise express on cue their sympathies for the story being "made" in their midst. At the end, following the shamanistic purging performed by the women's "Dance of Life," the shamans invite members of the audience to join in the final frenzied clamor of the nan-jang...
...couple of "cheer ups" floated my way, masking carefully-disguised exhortations to hurry up, to get up, to catch...