Word: coping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divine sense of mission, it may well be because his dynasty is of surprisingly recent origin. His father, Reza Shah, was a swaggering 45-year-old army major in 1921 when he seized power from the corrupt Qajar dynasty. Harsh and intractable, Reza Shah was unable to cope with the world powers that interfered in Persian affairs after oil was discovered. Finally, in 1941, on the ground that he had become dangerously friendly with the Hitler regime, Reza Shah was packed off to exile in South Africa by the British and Russians. The throne passed to his shy, diffident...
Traditional "liberal" and "conservative" slogans are simply not adequate to cope with the shortage crises now dominating the economy. The bankruptcy of traditional solutions to our economic malaise is apparent; the persistent stagflation seems immune to both traditional monetary policy and proposals for creation of new agencies to generate recovery...
...March 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed a national emergency to cope with the Depression...
...years," Dr. Silverman says, "we've been stuck on the question of whether illness is emotionally or physically caused. It's caused by the interaction, and the clues are psychological as well as physical." When a person develops "critical stress" and cannot cope, he says, either the mind or body has to break down. If physical illness strikes, "it doesn't do so randomly, but at vulnerable spots unique for each of us." That uniqueness will depend on which organs have been "sensitized" by heredity, childhood diseases or neurotic strategies like those the blind professor used...
...first episode, Truckie had to cope with his old man's disruptive return from a prospecting expedition, a brother who wants to quit the local high school because Truckie is coming back to it ("you'll be the only student with wrinkles"), and the death of his little sister's favorite pet, Jonathan Livingston Duck. Truckie's method of handling all this would make Walton's mountain collapse. He brawls lustily with his father, and tricks his brother (Mark Hamill) into a return to scholarship. Instead of giving the distraught little girl a homely homily...