Word: copes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to teach frenetics to cope...
...wagon. Terence Gorski, president of the Center for Applied Sciences in Hazel Crest, Ill., has studied thousands of relapse cases and found that on their way to recovery, alcoholics go through specific stages, each with its dangerous temptation to return to drinking. Early on, it may be hard to cope with withdrawal. Later, the patient may falter in developing a normal family and social life. Finally, there is a period of complacency, when the recovering alcoholic no longer fears drinking as he once did. At each point, says Gorski, "the person is out of control before he actually starts...
Meanwhile, authorities have had to cope with Yugoslavia's long-simmering ethnic tensions. The worst problem is the impoverished southern province of Kosovo, where once dominant Serbs are now outnumbered almost 9 to 1 by ethnic Albanians, many of whom seek independence from Belgrade. Animosity has run high since Yugoslav troops crushed ethnic Albanian riots in 1981. The Serbs complain of rising Albanian persecution in the form of rapes, murders and cattle blindings. Hostility mounted last month when Serbian newspapers quoted former Yugoslav Vice President Fadilj Hodza, a top-ranking ethnic Albanian Communist, as sardonically telling army-reserve officers that...
Brecht's analogy, while apt, isn't always historically accurate. Brecht means for Ui's blackmailing Dogsborough (David Cope) for power in Chicago to imply that Hitler blackmailed President Hindenburg in order to become chancellor, which is not necessarily true. Also, Brecht's meticulous parallel fails to take into account anti-Semitism...
...fare for the 20-minute ride is just under $10 but involves counting out 80 1,000-cordoba notes. The government's measures to cope with inflation include printing three additional zeros on its 20-cordoba bills in order to provide a denomination of some practical use. There are so many exchange rates that a visitor sometimes feels trapped in a hall of mirrors. For external debt, the rate is 70 cordobas to the dollar. The official rate for visitors is 9,500 cordobas to the dollar, while the flourishing black-market rate is up to , 18,000. A briefcase...