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...patient's symptoms point to a definite, diagnosable disease, the treatment-surgery, drugs or other therapy-is often obvious. But what should a doctor do when the symptoms add up to no known ailment? Dr. Joseph Sapira, a Birmingham, Ala., internist, believes the physician definitely should not dismiss the complaint as imaginary. Instead, he should try "reassurance therapy," and in the Annals of Internal Medicine Sapira tells how to administer it. The first step, he says, is to elicit a detailed description of the symptoms; the next is to ascertain how they affect or concern the patient...
...seven defecting Southern Presbyterian congregations (scattered from Virginia to Alabama), are trying to do just that by simply renouncing their ties with the national church. The 843-member West End Church of Hopewell, Va., however, is going through channels and has petitioned its district presbytery "to dismiss us with our property...
...urge the Committee to dismiss her (Messing's) case while the nature of disciplinary procedure is being reconsidered by the academic community." Rosenkrantz said
Clout. It may be on the local level that self-interested money most distorts the democratic process, partly because a large contribution carries more clout there. A lawyer contributes to a district attorney's re-election because the D.A. can dismiss cases defended by his legal friends. Textbook suppliers seek contracts by donating to candidates for school boards or elective school administrators. Hoping to get the accounts, bankers back with cash the officials who determine where municipal or state funds will be kept. Such dealings look perfectly proper to Kansas City Banker Alex Barket, who asks: "If I contribute...
After having established through his own researches precisely the sort of link between Gulf and the Portuguese that the Mass Hall occupiers boomed out over their loudspeakers last spring. Farber attempts to dismiss the relevance of the charges by nothing that "the operative factor in this negotiating situation and others seems to be the pressing of self-interest by both parties"--as if critics had been claiming that Gulf was not just a corporation, but a perverse philanthropic organization chartered to fund a fascist governments and military adventures...