Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equally strong case can be made that the 1980s will be a golden decade. The fact that the U.S. has slipped behind means that it has a tremendous backlog of demand for capital projects, a huge amount of unmet needs for the investment that creates real wealth. If the nation now chooses policies that will unleash that investment, there will be a capital burst that can lift the U.S. to new peaks of material prosperity and geopolitical strength...
...worthwhile for society but that create no new wealth. For example, the metals, paper, utilities, chemical and other industries have had to spend large sums for mandatory environmental protection equipment instead of machines and plants. In its annual report last week, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee deplored the fact that industry in 1977 had to spend $6.9 billion for pollution-abatement equipment "that does not contribute directly to the production of measured output...
...clinical psychobiology at the National Institute of Mental Health, has a tranquilizing message: "There is a chemistry of the human brain, but it acts in response to the environment." Goodwin also points out gently that brain research has not yet produced any new treatments for mental disease. In fact, the only early result expected from the research is agreement of existing antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs to eliminate side effects. Ross Baldessarini, a psychiatrist and biochemist at the Mailman Research Center, warns that chemical cures can easily be oversold, like psychoanalysis and community psychiatry. Says he: "We are not going...
...fact, during the 1960s and early '70s, many psychiatrists put some distance between themselves and organized medicine, identifying more with psychologists, sociologists and other social scientists than with their fellow doctors. Indeed psychiatry seemed almost ashamed of its medical origins, preferring to see itself as a softer, almost humanistic discipline. Along with this greening of psychiatry, the myth developed that it might be able to cure such serious social illnesses as drug abuse, delinquency and crime. Many psychiatrists even wondered why specialists of the human mind had to go to medical school at all. But all that has changed...
...hang-ups as much as those of their patients. Public misconceptions about psychiatry are still worse, including the cartoonist's idea that almost all psychiatry, rather than just traditional analysis, is done on a couch. For years psychiatrists have also been regarded as medicine's robber barons. In fact, as medical specialists go, they rank relatively low on the pay scale (average annual income: $47,565), far behind surgeons, $73,245, and only slightly above...