Word: dispiritedness
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AS THE SUMMER OF 1980 UNFOLDED AND THE DATE OF ANOTHER interest payment drew closer, Whitewater lot sales came to a halt. Meanwhile, McDougal soured on his job in the Clinton administration. Faced with some legislative setbacks, Bill seemed dispirited; as Hillary explained it to press secretary Julie Baldridge, "If...
The problem for Bob Dole, the wounded front runner, was that he was unable to be Pat Buchanan and unwilling to be himself. Lamar Alexander, trying to convince voters he was more than the "least worse" choice, had to roll out a refreshened agenda even if its contents, such as...
But why are some people better able to "snap out of it" and get on with the task at hand? Again, given sufficient self-awareness, people develop coping mechanisms. Sadness and discouragement, for instance, are "low arousal" states, and the dispirited salesman who goes out for a run is triggering...
By an overwhelming vote of 87 to 12, the Senate approved the Republican-propelled plan to overhaul welfare--a sweeping about-face on 60 years of social policy. The bill eliminates federal guarantees of assistance to the needy and relies instead on capped block grants, mostly to be administered as...
The result was a deadly confusion that seemed to overtake every level of government. Immediately after the quake, Kobe authorities failed to cordon off main roads for official use, and the delay of police and fire vehicles undoubtedly raised the death toll. For nearly four hours, the Governor of Hyogo...