Word: loss
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Confronting a loss of something or someone so essential to one's sense of self that it seems impossible to go on without it is the second reason people may consider suicide. This may also occur when one feels unable to live up to the expectations of others--the expectations that may have also come to define one's own sense of self-esteem. The third is the situation in which a major mental disturbance leads to delusional thinking and loss of reality testing, leaving one vulnerable to irrational concepts of the consequences of self-destructive behavior...
...bummer because I had been building up to win," DeNunzio said. "But characteristically I haven't come back well after a loss and this time I was able to prove that I could...
...Killar began his quest with a 3-0 victory over Northwestern's Drew Pariano in the first round. In the second round, he shutdown Ivy foe Rick Springman with ease, handing him a 5-2 loss. In the quarterfinals, Killar faced more of a challenge, as he was matched with Kirk White of Boise State. In a heated, high-scoring battle White was able to pull out a 12-11 victory on his way to eventually winning the national title...
DIED. PHILIP STRAX, 90, impassioned radiologist who ran free clinics for women and championed early detection of breast cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Stricken by the loss of his first wife to the disease, Strax helped lead a landmark 62,000-woman-strong study in the 1960s that found mammography could reduce fatalities by a third...
...EXTRA CREDIT If you're taking out a loan or buying a car, you might as well shell out a few extra bucks for credit insurance, which covers your debts in case of an accident or loss of job, right? Wrong. That, at least, was the conclusion of a Consumers Union report out last week, which said that credit insurance, judging by the ratio of benefits paid out to the cost of premiums, is largely a rip-off, bilking customers out of $2 billion a year. Many life- and homeowner's-insurance policies provide the same level of coverage...