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...nation’s top news organizations have battled the same emotions of late, with many of them vexed about how to cope with terminology about the war. It’s an issue consistently debated since 2003, as the administration and compliant news agencies had worked together to shape the country’s various perceptions of the conflict. This past week, in the wake of a decisive electoral defeat and the removal of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, the beleaguered president took another blow as a few major news organizations began to shift their description...
...Michael Suleiman, the commander in chief of the Lebanese Army, recently admitted that his troops would be able to contain a series of demonstrations "for only a few weeks." If Hizballah organizes protests around the country similar to those in Beirut last week, "We will not be able to cope," Suleiman reportedly said. His concern was that because many of his troops are Shi'ite, they would refuse to act against their brethren within Hizballah...
...This is the way so many adolescents cope with the changes and urges their bodies are forcing them through. But some of Apted subjects are ready to banter. The upper-class boys have added poise to their prejudices. John especially: Apted asks him, "Are you ambitious," and he says yes. "What for?" "Fame. And power." "What sort of power?" "Political power." (He says that when he joins Parliament, "I wouldn't allow any strikes.") Prodded to analyze how he's changed in seven years, John sagely replies, "One grows so slowly that one never notices." And when asked...
John Cail turned to grief counseling to help him cope with the loss of Maxine. For the past six months, he has had one-on-one counseling and group therapy at Alive Hospice. "My counselor helped me see that I had to do things like make social plans, even though after Maxine's death I was lonelier with people than by myself," he says. As he has learned to understand the grief process, he feels the veil of sorrow lifting. "Maxine's death was the worst thing to ever happen to me," he says, "but I'm starting to meet...
...advice she got from Maxine Powell, the famed etiquette coach at Motown. Powell, who trained artists like Reeves, Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross in skills ranging from dealing with the media to knowing which fork to use at a formal dinner, emphasized the importance of being able to cope with change. "One thing Maxine always taught us," Reeves recalls, "is that you have to have a life outside of music. Invest in yourself some other way, she said, because you can lose the money and the fame, and then where...