Word: euphoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Psychiatrists say these sessions can produce a drugged-like, mind-controlled euphoria that keeps customers coming back for more. To pay their fees, newcomers can earn commissions by recruiting new members, become auditors themselves (Miscavige did so at age 12), or join the church staff and receive free counseling in exchange for what their written contracts describe as a "billion years" of labor. "Make sure that lots of bodies move through the shop," implored Hubbard in one of his bulletins to officials. "Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money ... However you get them...
...euphoria is wearing thin. As the troops head back to the U.S., misgivings about the nation and its future have also come marching home. A TIME/CNN survey conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman indicates trends that are not totally unexpected but are nonetheless significant: Bush's popularity is eroding and the public is increasingly concerned about the economy. Democrats may want to think twice before conceding the 1992 election in advance...
...some of the most gruesome film footage shown on the evening news ironically took place not in the Persian Gulf but right here at home. The image of Los Angeles police officers last month brutally beating a defenseless citizen, Rodney King, woke the nation out of its post-Iraq euphoria and showed us the savage side of human nature. The picture of King's bruised face was comparable to the Iraqis' display of allied prisoners of war in the disgust and horror they both evoked...
According to Cantor, the stagnation of our generation will only end when we use the critical techniques of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud to supersede the artificial (and ultimately harmful) euphoria to which our society has fallen prey...
...when the hoopla subsides, many families will be left to cope with a host of problems that may catch them by surprise. "Reunion is much more stressful than departure," cautions Meg Falk, deputy director of the Navy's family- support program. Typically, the returning troops will career from euphoria to a baffled recognition that time has not stood still in their absence: children have grown, spouses have become more independent. It's difficult to adjust. "We encourage them to be an honored guest in the home for a while rather than come charging in to take over," says Marine Chaplain...