Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THAT'S DEPRESSING Many folks treated for depression are, well, depressed about antidepressants. Barely a third of those surveyed say they are very satisfied with the drugs. Meanwhile, more than 80% admit depression continues to impair their social life, while 72% say their work performance still suffers. Patients shouldn't give up on treatment. They should talk to their doctor about altering dosage or switching to a different pill...
...FAMILY What's the latest measure of success? Not material possessions or a prestigious job. A Yankelovich poll for MasterCard indicates it's a good family life. Eight of 10 people say they admire someone who puts family before work; nearly half say they've changed jobs to have more family time; and 1 in 5 say they've taken a pay cut to work less. But what we say about priorities doesn't always match what we do: a recent government study shows working hours have risen, while time with kids has fallen...
...McCain is more interested in showing off the pets--the iguana, the hamster and Leo the snake--as well as the house itself with its vast deck, pool and hot tub off the master bedroom, as if to say that life has been good to him after all. The four kids have already been packed off to school. And now Cindy, in this Phoenix home where she grew up, is in charge. She's more commanding here than in Washington, where even after 19 years in the role of a politician's wife, she still seems tentative. She says...
Hasn't work and a chance for a better life for the once colonized been the great cause of the antimilitarist, anti-imperialist left for the past 40 years? Of course, earning a few dollars a day making running shoes is undesirable compared with the life of Western workers. But it is infinitely better than the subsistence farming these workers have left behind--and to which they would be forced to return should their supposed friends succeed in stopping trade by imposing Western-style labor and environmental standards that no Third World manufacturer could meet...
...left professes concern for Third World labor. But its real objective is to keep jobs at home. That means stopping the jobs from going to the very campesinos it claims to champion--and sentencing Third World workers to the deprivation of the preindustrial life they so desperately seek to escape. Some champions...