Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Egypt's President Anwar Sadat canceled his country's friendship treaty with the Soviet Union in March, he gave China a long-awaited chance to develop its own special relationship with Egypt. Within days after Sadat's action, Peking announced that it would give Sadat 30 new engines for Egypt's aging Soviet-built MIGS-a direct slap at the Soviets, who had refused to supply spare parts for the planes and had forbidden India...
...land and fear collectivization. In last Sunday's election, the small-holders heeded the instructions of their Church--and supported parties which their priests told them from the pulpits would put "Christ and God" before all else. If an equally powerful, unified opposition to these trends does not develop, the Portuguese Revolution will lose--and if it loses, it will not represent the innate "conservatism" of a people, but the failure of large left organizations which say they speak for the masses...
...throat or not give you certain privileges.' Patients have an apt phrase for this--they say they'll eat their way out of the hospital--but that doesn't mean they're straightened out in the head. For the dangerous ones [20 per cent of anorexics], maybe we should develop a drug to stimulate the hypothalmus so they will eat and not feel guilty about...
...Mass General Hospital, insulin injections are used to stimulate an appetite in anorexics. Dr. George Tully, an endocrinologist explains, "the insulin induces hypoglycemia. This makes the patient feel hungry and gives them a sweaty, mild headache which only eating can relieve." Ideally, a normal appetite will develop in the patient and she will not just eat to avoid the insulin's side effects. The insulin treatment is accompanied by psychiatric care...
Masland says the anorexic sees weight gain at puberty as "a distortion and wants to deny her femininity." He says anorexics need "a good relationship with a psychiatrist so they'll develop a strong sexual identity, know who they are and where they're going...