Word: phobias
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...early sign of this stress is school phobia, a major crisis involving fever, depression, even autism and suicide. It accounts for almost half of the mental illness among Japanese youngsters under 18 and takes an average of two years of drug therapy and counseling to cure...
...This ain't Viet Nam, and it sure as hell better not end the way Viet Nam ended. People bring Viet Nam up all the time because they know Viet Nam is unpopular. It plays on a fear and a phobia that are built into the American consciousness...
What white voters, in cities like Chicago, who entertain racist phobia toward Afro-American candidates fail to recognize is that their paranoid style political preferences are not fixed habits for all white voters and can be checkmuted when Blacks are galvanized to turnout in larger numbers than whites. These conditions happily obtained in Chicago's April 12th mayoral election, gave Harold Washington a more than 42,000 vote edge over Republican Bernard Epton, out of more than 1,3 million votes cast. Upper middle-class and professional whites in the Lakefront wards kept their own racial feelings in check enough...
Meanwhile, the trend toward less selectivity across-the-board in college admissions has cut down on the phobia that low scores present an insurmountable barrier to getting into college. The latest stats show that almost three-fourths of all applications to American four-year colleges are now accepted. In other words, educators' attention to substance over scores has started to chip away at the tendency to take the numbers too seriously...
...Computer Phobia...