Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participation in the talks. And Jordan's King Hussein, virtually held hostage in his own land by the intimidating presence of Palestinian guerrillas, would rather not join the ranks of the martyrs--men like Sartawi and Anwar Sadat, for example, who dared to break with the PLO leadership and pain dearly for their apostasy...
...would deny the right of people in agony to end their lives. In most cases, however, pain is controllable, and not all cancer patients suffer with severe pain. If the pain is bearable, life continues to have meaning until the end. Suicide is not the only option...
...from stress, unexpressed emotions or the need for attention. Explains Ford: "They turn psychological issues into body issues." He cites one of his patients as typical: a housewife torn between a desire to work and a desire to be pampered. For two years, she had been complaining of terrible pain in her abdomen whenever she sat down. Her symptom, Ford says, was caused by her conflicting needs: "If she had a pain, she had to be taken care of, but the pain was also punishment for not working...
According to Ford, somatizing disorders take many forms, including hysteria, malingering, chronic pain and hypochondriasis. The hypochondriac is preoccupied with the fear of having a serious disease. Some doctors refer to the treatment of hypochondriacs, or "crocks," as "psychoceramic medicine" and the recitation of their histories as "organ recitals." Other somatizers sometimes deliberately fake illness, going so far, for example, as to rub a thermometer on a bedsheet to produce a fever, lacerate the skin to create lesions, or overuse laxatives to disrupt the gastrointestinal tract. In the bizarre Munchausen syndrome, which, according to one estimate, affects...
While smaller firms have been the main victims of the oil collapse, the major companies have been feeling the pain as well. In their case, however, it has taken the form of lower profits rather than bankruptcies and losses. Earnings for the two dozen largest oil producers fell to an estimated $20.3 billion last year, down nearly one-third from their 1980 peak. Exxon, the world's largest industrial company, cut its work force by 7,000, closed some 3,000 service stations and sold off 17 tankers, but reported that profits still dropped 13%, to $4.2 billion. Texaco...