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...lost a loved one will naturally need a long period of grieving to recover. But others could move on fairly quickly. The acute anxiety that follows a trauma typically lasts one to three weeks before the feeling fades. It's only after three months elapse and the symptoms persist that true post-traumatic stress disorder sets...
...eight months so far have not packed the needed firepower to reverse this torturous slowdown. Indeed, the folks who listen to Greenspan most carefully--those in the Treasury-bond pits--are starting to give up on a Greenspan solution. In a sign that they expect economic weakness to persist, last week traders shoved long-term bond yields close to a 2 1/2-year...
Both parties are more interested in implementing their own version of the same stagnant status quo than in innovating new solutions for the tenacious problems that persist...
...million Number of people in China projected to be infected with HIV by 2010 if present trends persist...
Bloom reportedly warned Xu in the letter that he would “not receive the continued support of the School for you or your research if you persist in exercising independent action” and that his continued efforts to silence critics would lead to “appropriate sanctions...