Word: copes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dallas' Neiman-Marcus department store, all with the same unvarnished, fly-on-the-wall style. Even his titles -- Hospital, Welfare, Racetrack, The Store -- are stripped to the bluntly descriptive essentials. Behind Wiseman's minimalist method, however, is a subtle and perceptive artist. His enduring subject: the way people cope with the stress, dislocation and institutional indifference of American life...
...battered is Iran? The question is being asked more and more frequently these days, not only in Arab chanceries but also in Washington and the capitals of Western Europe, as Tehran attempts to cope with a series of unexpected setbacks. After nearly eight years of war with Iraq, Iran suddenly finds itself on the defensive, forced to regroup and rebuild after decisive defeats at the hands of the Iraqi army. The battlefield losses in turn have increased tensions between radical and moderate factions among the ruling mullahs and led the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to bestow his title of commander...
Vietnamese Boat Person Vu Thanh Thuy, at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: "In fact, surprising as it may seem, the daily struggle of making a living in America is more difficult to cope with than all of the events we went through in prison and at sea. The reason is that there is nothing 'heroic' about surviving the never ending problems of daily life...
...issue of Harvard's role as an employer does not touch only support staff. Junior professors, who number about 400 in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, must cope with salaries too small to accommodate Cambridge's high cost of living, jobs that rarely lead to tenure and heavy teaching loads. Junior faculty members say their transient lives often leave them feeling detached from the Harvard community. The administration has begun to show concern for its junior professors, as Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence this week issued his second report on the subject...
...study concluded that many women fear success because they believed that it might make them less popular or seem too masculine. Even as president, Horner has continued her study of how women cope in a male-dominated society...