Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rabe's script, though innovative, is flawed. Despair and disillusionment too readily become modern cliches, and should be meted out carefully...
...patients who learn that they have cancer or heart disease -- or any other catastrophic disease -- become worse at the time of diagnosis. The moment they have a label to attach to their symptoms, the illness deepens. All the terrible things they have heard about disease produce the kind of despair that in turn complicates the underlying condition. It is not unnatural to be severely apprehensive about a serious diagnosis, but a reasonable confidence is justified. Cancer today, for example, is largely a treatable disease. A heavily damaged heart can be reconditioned. Even a positive HIV diagnosis does not necessarily mean...
People who have heart attacks are especially prone to despair. After they come through the emergency phase of the episode, they begin to reflect on all the things they think they will be unable to do. They wonder whether they will be able to continue at their jobs, whether they will be able to perform satisfactorily at sex, whether they can play tennis or golf again. In short, + they contemplate an existence drained of usefulness and joy. The spark goes out of their souls. It may help for these people to know that in addition to the miracles that modern...
Those laid-off Wall Streeters who can't afford a power tie shouldn't despair about finding work -- or natty clothes. Bergdorf Goodman, the ultra-tony Manhattan retailer, thinks displaced brokers would have a knack for peddling $1,000 suits on Fifth Avenue. To staff a new men's store, Bergdorf courted former financial pitchmen in a help-wanted ad in the Wall Street Journal: "From brokering to banking, if you've a proven track record in sales, the new Bergdorf Goodman Men's Store offers a career opportunity that is at once exciting and rewarding." Bergdorf says it swiftly...
...these findings. "The results take obesity out of being a moral problem -- that obese people have a lack of willpower -- and put it more in the realm of metabolism," observes Dr. Theodore VanItallie of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. But this evidence could also lead to despair. If people are born to be fat, are attempts to slim down doomed? No, say weight specialists. Low-fat diets and exercise can help offset heredity. People may inherit a propensity to obesity, but it need not be their destiny...