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...past. And a great deal has been done to make that really happen. We have started to build a relationship on a new basis. We've agreed that the disputes between us can be resolved and, furthermore, that those disputes are less significant than the new challenges that confront mankind. As a result, a process of actually reducing nuclear and conventional arms has become possible and is now under way. Regional conflicts have become a subject on which we can work constructively together...
...group of other recovering addicts. In most sex-addiction programs, patients go through the twelve treatment steps designed for A.A. groups. The steps include admitting the nature of the wrongs committed and making amends to people who were hurt. Carnes also explores his clients' family background and helps them confront the origins of their behavior...
...have been in treatment for five years or more. Among the more successful cases is Burt Schneider, 48, an author from Tucson, who sought help after going through multiple extramarital affairs. "Up to a point I could control it," he says. "After that I couldn't." Schneider learned to confront his problem and share his secret torment with his wife Jennifer, an internist. Dr. Schneider, who entered a self-help program for relatives of addicts, wrote about her experiences in the book Back from Betrayal...
...needs of the handicapped than is the new law. One provision of the disabilities act, for example, will require all new buses to be equipped with hydraulic lifts that will cost state and local governments up to $30 million annually for the next several years. Meeting that requirement will confront hard-pressed small towns with a difficult financial choice...
...whenever we examine those terrible years, we do not find very many people with clean hands. But what does Miller's subtitle Facing the Holocaust actually mean? What are we asking when we demand that people "confront" or "deal with" such a disaster? The Holocaust certainly can and should be studied, analyzed, remembered, but memory is of rather limited value. Even after all that has been said about it, in anger or in sorrow, the Holocaust cannot really be understood -- or expiated...