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...shown steady growth over the last couple of years and it will likely continue this trend at least through next year's elections. The president is traditionally the figure who Americans give credit to or blame for the economy, as Ford, Carter, and Bush all found out to their distress. Clinton will inevitably benefit from a growing economy as Reagan did. An astonishing 51 percent of Americans (in a CNN poll, Nov. 10) feel they are better off now than three years ago. These voters are hardly the ones to vote for a change. At the same time, Clinton...
SUED. STEPHEN MEYERS, half of Jacoby & Meyers, the chain legal partnership that peddles litigation like cubic zirconia; by LEONARD JACOBY, the other half; for breach of partnership, fraud and emotional distress; in Los Angeles. Jacoby wants $2 million from his partner of 23 years...
Instead of flowers, the von Stade family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Class of 1938 Fund, which benefits first years "in times of personal hardship or distress," the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene or the Dublin, N.H. School...
...skills, empathy is an innate quality that can be shaped by experience. Infants as young as three months old exhibit empathy when they get upset at the sound of another baby crying. Even very young children learn by imitation; by watching how others act when they see someone in distress, these children acquire a repertoire of sensitive responses. If, on the other hand, the feelings they begin to express are not recognized and reinforced by the adults around them, they not only cease to express those feelings but they also become less able to recognize them in themselves or others...
...academies. But in the end, that accommodation was far from what she needed to get through. After hours of exercising in the morning sun, she was unable to hold down her lunch-Beefaroni-or even a few swallows of Gatorade. With four male cadets who were also suffering physical distress, she reported to the infirmary. All were treated and discharged during the afternoon. Faulkner and three others returned soon after when they became sick again...