Word: coping
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...Ford to govern. He appeals to those elements of the party that have never been a significant part of Ford's constituency: liberals and big-city ethnic groups. He also enjoys uniquely close relations with both business and labor and can attract the kind of talent needed to cope with Ford's biggest problem: inflation. Despite past battles with party conservatives, he is not likely to offend many people today. He has made at least a token peace with the right. Moreover, he is no longer the political threat he used to be. Age is fast removing...
Last spring 23% of those surveyed believed that they were in deep trouble financially, 43% said that they were managing to cope with rising prices by trimming expenditures, and 34% reported that they had scarcely felt inflation's effects. By July the picture had changed. Fewer people found themselves able to cope (39%), and more people felt serious economic distress (28%). They are the group whose politics are most likely to be affected by changes in economic conditions in the future...
...child misbehaved, for example, Von Hilsheimer would sometimes gather the students together to declare him "morally dead"; then, concocting his own version of reality therapy (which denies the importance of past traumas and encourages a patient to cope outright with his current dilemma), Von Hilsheimer and the students would force the youth to dig himself a grave and lie in it overnight. "I think it is a beautiful symbolic thing for the kids to go through," he explained. "It's a way of forcing them to look at themselves." At other times he would shackle the child, jolt...
...stagnant industrial production, and the latter will probably fare better, simply because capitalism will have to undergo a transition of income redistribution unacceptable to its long-standing commitment to the ethos of economic advancement. More importantly, neither a traditionally democratic capitalistic society, nor a democratic socialist society could cope with a growing body of science and technology, or burgeoning industrial growth--strict controls would have to be imposed. "In place of prodigalities of consumption," says Heilbroner, "must come new frugal attitudes." Of the utmost consequence, however, are the inevitable strictures on civil rights to which either form of socio-economic...
...baby boom that swelled the ranks of college-age youth in the 1960s and the end of the Viet Nam conflict, which drove many young people to seek shelter on campus from the Selective Service. Vocational schools are becoming more popular, while fewer parents are willing or able to cope with rising college costs (the current annual average at private four-year schools...