Word: coping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bother Me, I Can't Cope. Awardwinning black musical incorporating a variety of musical and dancing styles ranging from gospel to rock, from swingtime to calypso. At the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton Street, Boston. For more info call...
...from suburban Philadelphia's Main Line 13th District, Schweiker has steered a left-of-center course that has helped make him one of the state's biggest Republican votegetters. So attentive has he been to his labor constituents that the AFL-CIO'S political action group, COPE, awards Schweiker a 100% rating and made him the first Pennsylvania Republican Senator to win its endorsement for re-election (in 1974). Among other things, he voted to repeal Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act, the right-to-work provision that allows states to outlaw the closed shop...
...failure to expand into foreign markets, where the Bank of America and Citibank were making major and highly profitable inroads. Rockefeller belatedly corrected that failing. But under his leadership, the Chase made other errors. Citibank set up a special data-processing operation with a team of industrial engineers to cope with the growing volume of checks and other paper. Chase, though it has computerized its operations, still has not completely solved its paperwork problems...
...almshouses. With the founding of the first mental hospital, the Virginia "insane asylum" at Williamsburg, shortly before the Revolution, the mentally ill began to be moved from jails and almshouses to state-sponsored, more humane institutions. Early on, the great cost of mental illness precluded voluntary efforts to cope for people of ordinary means...
...reassurance. Common colds, minor injuries, gastrointestinal upsets, back pain, arthritis and psychoneurotic anxiety states account for the vast majority of visits to clinics and doctors' offices. One out of four people is "emotionally tense" and worried about insomnia, fatigue, too much or too little appetite and ability to cope with modern life. At least 10% of the population suffer from some form of mental illness, and one-seventh of these receive some form of psychiatric care. Meanwhile, the figures for longevity are the highest and for infant mortality the lowest in U.S. history, and the gap continues to narrow...