Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conditioning?" In Detroit, workers at the big automobile companies asked the same question. As temperatures in the foundries rose to nearly 130°, they were sent home or, in some cases, walked out on their own. At the White House, Press Secretary Jody Powell had to explain why Jimmy Carter wanted to lunch alfresco in 93° heat: "It's an old Southern tradition to sweat in your food...
Because effects of these medicines are sometimes severe, doctors must use them judiciously. Patients too must help; stress, overexertion and strong sunlight all can cause a sharp relapse. As Dr. Sheldon Blau and Dodi Schultz explain in their new book Lupus (Doubleday; $5.95): "The patient and doctor must function as a partnership-analogous, perhaps, to a police team on foot patrol, never knowing from what source trouble may appear, but constantly prepared to cope with any eventuality...
...scenes of zany inmates being violent or bestial (though it has its share, enough to earn it an R rating). It does not idealize the mental institution as a citadel of scientific wisdom and compassion, nor caricature it as a latter-day Bedlam administered by sadists. It does not explain away its protagonist's schizophrenia with some unearthed childhood trauma, as if the condition were a sort of Freudian acrostic to be solved...
...putters in the yard. Come autumn, he cleans the rain gutters and in winter, the man from Panama shovels snow. Carew is rooted now, and the mercurial moods that marked his early career seldom surface. "When I ask Charryse what Daddy does, she says, 'Daddy strikes out. I explain to her that Daddy doesn't strike out very often. But how can you get mad at fans when your own kids knock you? I leave my game at the park. When I go home to play with my kids, they don't care if I went...
Last month the officers of Crédit Suisse convened an extraordinary meeting to explain to 3,000 stunned stockholders how the debacle could have occurred. Newly elected Board Chairman Oswald Aeppli was unable to put a specific figure on the bank's losses. So tangled was the trail of the fraudulent investments, he said, that a 100-man Crédit Suisse investigating team has still not sorted out the mess. The investigation could take months longer...