Word: copings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Your friendships will get tangled like tagliatelle, and it will be a challenge to keep straight the crushes, the feuds, the screen names. Yet as you cope with these grown-up entanglements, remember to be nice to little kids. You were little yourself once. And to your parents. You are about to go through a phase in which we say only annoying, irrelevant and inconvenient things. By the time you are ready to graduate from high school, you may find our company bearable again. In the meantime, our job is to keep you safe, let you trip occasionally, shut down...
...nation struggles to cope with $4-a-gal. gas, what are we to make of Rainwater's decision? Is it a sign that the near doubling of oil prices over the past eight months is about to reverse itself? Does it mean we can all breathe big sighs of relief and go back to gassing up our Hummers with abandon...
...lines. Data contained in the Army's fifth Mental Health Advisory Team report indicate that, according to an anonymous survey of U.S. troops taken last fall, about 12% of combat troops in Iraq and 17% of those in Afghanistan are taking prescription antidepressants or sleeping pills to help them cope. Escalating violence in Afghanistan and the more isolated mission have driven troops to rely more on medication there than in Iraq, military officials...
...Using drugs to cope with battlefield traumas is not discussed much outside the Army, but inside the service it has been the subject of debate for years. "No magic pill can erase the image of a best friend's shattered body or assuage the guilt from having traded duty with him that day," says Combat Stress Injury, a 2006 medical book edited by Charles Figley and William Nash that details how troops can be helped by such drugs. "Medication can, however, alleviate some debilitating and nearly intolerable symptoms of combat and operational stress injuries" and "help restore personnel to full...
Finally, there has been a vast increase of bureaucracy to cope with all the tasks–connections with the outside world, and management (as well as production) of a Himalayas of paper—both in the form of professional bureaucrats and in that of academics turned, willy-nilly, into part- or full-time administrators. The only law of political “science” I recognize as such is: the greater the bureaucracy, the less efficient it tends to become...