Word: copely
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...first full-scale collection of stories. The tales are loosely connected by a single theme: getting old. In a foreword, the 74-year-old author confides that for almost half a century she has been keeping notes on the art of aging, observing the ways that people cope with the advancing years...
...renegotiate the international monetary system would take three to five years. Nobody has that much time," Seaga said. "It is necessary to have practical solutions to cope with current problems...
...pressure is always on you," Grossman says. "You can't make any excuses for yourself." He adds, "through tennis, I've gained an ability to cope in pressure situations...
...carries the playwright's own actions one step further. Chekhov boils the play's plot down to a bare minimum; Rauch abandons the scenery as well. We are left with the bare essence: a group of men and women struggling vainly to communicate with each other and to cope with their loves, their art, and their lives...
...author. Traditional psychiatric approaches may be helpful for treating accompanying symptoms, such as despair, paranoia or anxiety, he believes, but they are nearly useless in dealing with the underlying nature of alcoholism itself. In his book, he ruefully describes his own disillusionment with his profession's ability to cope with the disease. "I was working for the most exciting alcohol program in the world," he says. But the results at the clinic were no better than if the doctors had left the alcoholics alone...