Word: leading
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...subsiding only to well up again at the next crisis. And as research increasingly shows, depression is often a marker for other disorders, including the syndrome that used to be called manic depression and is now known as bipolar disorder. If undetected and untreated in preteens, depressive episodes can lead to severe anxiety or manic outbursts not only in adulthood but as early as adolescence...
...parents live in a world of family mood swings, that doesn't mean they are prepared to put their own child on mind-altering drugs. That prospect can lead to major soul searching: Will they be thought less of as parents? And if they do agree to antidepressants, will the child still be the one they know...
...younger children often appears in conjunction with other disorders. "Many depressed kids," notes Fassler, "are initially diagnosed with ADHD or learning disabilities. We need to separate out the conditions and treat both problems." But there's a chicken-and-egg problem here: antisocial behavior or a learning disability can lead a child to become isolated and alienated from peers and thus can trigger depression. And depression can further interfere with learning or bring on antisocial behavior...
...relation between an object's distance and the speed at which it is receding is represented by what astronomers call the Hubble constant. Discovery of the constant would lead to an estimate of the age of the universe...
...best of my understanding, not merely doled out to the outgoing chair's partner-in-crime but handed over to the individual or individuals who have demonstrated the most desire to participate in the House committee. Participation, more than anything else, generally dictated who would be the next to lead. Since participation would generally be a good attribute in a job that requires quite a bit of activity (as opposed to self-aggrandizing delegatory skills), the system hardly seems unreasonable...