Word: curing
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...cure has yet to be found for what the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has publicly declared the nation's number one health problem. The 1986 budget proposal would cut AIDS research funds from $96 million to $86 million, a sum much lower than the HHS has requested. A report issued February 21 by the Office of Technology Assessment (a research group affiliated with Congress) found the Reagan Administration's treatment of the problem deficient. The report added that despite advances in the research, the department's efforts have "not always been supported by financial and personnel resources...
...true cure-all, according to Shainess, is that women must become autuonomous individuals congnizant of their own worth. For even a slightly masochistic woman this requires a major reorganization of the ways in which she views herself and her relations with others. Shainess is adamant, however, that masochism can be overcome. She offers a variety of ways to facilitate the process, but (not unexpectedly) advocates some form of psychotherapy. Therapy, unfortunately, is a service the most victimized are the least likely to afford...
WHILE SHAINESS is both interesting and scholarly when explaining the origins and manifestiations of masochism in daily life, she verges on the simplistic in the chapters devoted to self-help. In addition, "the cure" Shainess is proposing is unettling in a couple of ways. First, she insists that women must develop a tough self-contained autonomy to avoid being victimized, on the premise that people will victimize if they see vulnerability. Granted, one should be selective about whom one opens up to (the masochist is characterized by a need to show her vulnerabilty to everyone), but Shainess fails to show...
...Jack F. Kemp (R-N.Y.) brought his boundless optimism and unorthodox brand of conservative economics to Harvard yesterday, telling more than 500 at the Business School that business growth will cure the nation's economic woes...
...criticized for saying that (capital) growth will cure everything," the Congressman said in his hour-long talk. "It may not cure everything, but it helps...