Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dropping ECT apparently leaves a gap in the psychiatric arsenal. Neither psychotherapy nor medication seems to help 20% to 30% of people with extreme depression-those who suffer excessive weight loss, insomnia, loss of sex drive and energy, or threaten or attempt suicide. Other patients, for example, the elderly or those with heart conditions, cannot tolerate the medications. Drugs also tend to act more slowly and sometimes produce unpleasant side effects, notably tardive dyskinesia, uncontrollable facial and body contortions caused by lengthy use of antipsychotics. Says Dr. Stuart Yudofsky of the New York State Psychiatric Institute...
Strong second--half performances by freshmen Lamar Flatt (nine points) and Calvin Dixon, both playing their first game for the Crimson, helped the hoopsters close the final gap...
Three and a half minutes later, scrappy Penn put up seven points and looked like it might turn the tame around. A Marzione-to-Montesanti three-yd. pass opened the fourth quarter with a third Quaker TD and closed the gap to 34-20. Penn failing on a two-point try. Two and a half minutes later, though, a wild Marzione lateral rolled through the arms of ten players before DeBello pounced on it and gave Harvard possession at the Penn...
...hope was that in places where service was curtailed or ended altogether, commuter airlines flying small planes and endowed with subsidies would fill the gap. Indeed, in the past twelve months more than 60 such lines have started up. But as a group they are plagued by a shortage of suitable aircraft and a poor safety record. So far in 1979, crashes involving commuter planes have killed 61 persons...
...length goal scoring rushes dominate the dreams of Harvard hockey fans, those who foster delusions of grandeur for a quick charge from The Bright will center their attention on the inexperienced Crimson defense. Hopes are that freshmen Mark Fusco (of Burlington, Mass.) and Scott Sangster can help fill the gap left by the loss of Mitch Olsen and Jackie Hughes...