Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to leave college," Nicholi added, "seldom, if ever, causes depression; on the contrary, the decision to leave, once made, brings considerable relief...
...tolerate the loneliness of his work; neither can he tolerate the competitive anxiety provoked by close contact with colleagues. He withdraws into himself. His work rapidly deteriorates. He becomes overwhelmed with guilt and despair... A paralyzing state of depression ensues and leaving college appears the only recourse that promises relief...
...nebulizers-is absorbed into the blood through the lungs and affects the heart. This may be responsible for the rising death rate among spray users during the past ten years. Published reports show more than 50 unexpected deaths following inhalation of sprays containing pressurized gas, many among asthmatics seeking relief. Several victims had exhausted as many as two containers of pressured spray shortly before death. In a few cases, the evidence was even stronger; the victims were clutching empty pressure-nebulizers when they were found...
...files bulge with people insured under assigned-risk plans despite five-to-eight drunken-driving citations." In other areas of insurance, home owners will probably have to accept $250-deductible clauses if fire and theft rates are to be kept anywhere within reason. There will be no real relief, though, so long as the nation continues to set records for crashing, stealing and burning. Until the U.S. becomes a calmer, safer place, the policyholder will have to pay more and more for less and less protection...
...Wallop's relief does not last long. Her own son Osgood, a struggling writer in New York, publishes a novella entitled The Duchess of Obloquy. Sandwiched in its entirety between Emma's own narrative, it moans the familiar tale of the castrated son. Through its absurd parodic details, however, De Vries engineers a nimble satire of contemporary attitudes on sex, race and Women...