Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program foundered more than welfare reform. Every effort at change seemed only to add more people to the relief rolls. Increasing the number of social workers did not help, nor did the Work Incentive Program. Welfare mothers, who make up the bulk of recipients, often lacked the education and the basic skills to find suitable employment. Throughout, writes Gilbert Y. Steiner, director of governmental studies at the Brookings Institution, well-meaning planners "overestimated the potential of the welfare population," which numbered 14.8 million, or 7.1% of the U.S. population...
...silver-sprayed Afros, tranvestites and Amazons. The action is not in getting into the movie as much as it is in getting off on the movie together, in concert. And the getting off means a wisecracky hysteria, a grab your neighbor and howl with a mad mock raspy relief, as if coming down off some wild nightmare ride of your midnight hour. There isn't a quiet minute of the movie. You hear waves of "Jeesus, man, I can't believe that action. I mean can you dig that dis-gusting motherfucker...
There seems now to be a widespread acknowledgment that the bar cannot afford to back away from its new concerns. As one state bar ethics committee observed in an annual report, the profession "has a headache that cries out for fast relief. We will compound our own cure or someone will mix up a dose that will curl our hair...
...quickly. A new class of drugs neutralizes monoamine oxidase (MAO), the enzyme that destroys these substances. The drugs, known as MAO inhibitors, thus prolong the useful life of the monoamines in the brain. The drugs by themselves are not considered a cure for depression, but they can give relief to the victim of acute depression while psychotherapy attempts to get at the root of his problem...
...implanted electronic "pacemakers" upon the cerebellums of several epileptics, as well as patients suffering from stroke-caused paralysis, cerebral palsy and from dystonia, a neuromuscular defect in which permanently flexed muscles twist and distort the limbs. The device, which stimulates the cerebellum with low-voltage jolts, has produced relief in most of the 70 cases in which it has been used. One muscular 26-year-old man suffered from daily epileptic seizures before he came to Cooper for a pacemaker. Since the machine was implanted a year ago, the man has been free of major seizures...