Word: coping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subjected to a week ofn onstop sensory glut. You will see, hear, and do a lot of new things with new people, and even if you never stop moving aroung there'll be thngs that you miss, or will want to miss. There are, of course, several ways to cope with Freshman Week, and the patern you choose will depend on your attitude coming in and how quickly you can adjust to a rather odd situation...
...Alaska keep its courts from being swamped by criminal trials without the supposedly essential practice of plea bargaining? Unlike urban courts already streamlined to cope with heavy case loads, Alaska courts had sufficient slack to absorb more trials. Efficiency techniques instituted 16 months before the ban continued to whittle down court delay. More careful screening out of weak cases also helped. But the main reason Alaska's courts could keep up is that defendants continued to plead guilty in droves. The percentage of accused choosing to exercise their right to trial increased only from 6.7% to 9.6%. Why? "Because...
Trying to cope with the worst dollar disaster yet, the Carter Administration last week seemed in peril of following what has become a distressingly familiar pattern: a portentous roll of publicity drums that builds up to a toot on an uncertain trumpet. Early in the week the dollar came under a concentrated cannonade from some financial Guns of August, and its steady, summer-long retreat turned into a disorderly rout. It fell 4½% against the Swiss franc in a single day, while the price of gold, the ultimate refuge for investors worried lest their dollars become worth much less...
Like all upheavals, this one is rich in uncertainties, anxieties and discomfort. Neither the airlines nor the airports are prepared to cope with the passenger flood. Delays, snafu's and frustration are the daily fare of today's traveler. "No one saw it coming," concedes Richard Ferris, president of United, the largest airline in the non-Communist world. "If anyone had told me last year that we would be up 21% in traffic so far this year, we would have straitjacketed him and locked him away." Now such a prescient person would probably be promoted to Senior Vice President...
...trial to be Norman Mailer, Billy Carter, Farrah Fawcett-Majors," John Leonard has written, "to have to grow a personality along the lines of one you invented, the one that sold; to have to compete with other fabricated personalities, inflations of cunning, blimps of ego." Celebrities also must cope with skeptical magazine profilers bent on finding the "real" person underneath...