Word: sad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Patched together in a furious week of back-room conferences between House and Senate subcommittees, the bill passed both chambers in the wee hours of Dec. 22. Few members even saw a copy of the legislation. "This blind voting is a sad commentary on the world's greatest deliberative body," lamented Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming. In the weeks since, as reporters, lobbyists and more than 200 budget analysts in the executive branch have dug into the budget pie, a number of surprises have come popping out. Complained Budget Director James Miller: "Some are the kinds of things...
...landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...
...Reading Period actually existed, things might be a bit different. For one thing, I would have no violent fantasies of force-feeding broccoli-cheese pasta to those who condone the current schedule. Yet, the sad fact remains that for many students, Reading Period does not exist. Not even slightly...
...only certainty so far is that light therapy relieves SAD. Sufferers readily pay around $400 for a sun-box, a device containing several fluorescent light tubes that emit the full spectrum of natural light at five to ten times the intensity of indoor lighting. Says Hellekson: "The light you get is about equivalent to standing one inch away from a window on a sunny spring day." Because light seems to affect the body through the eyes and not the skin, tanning therapy doesn't work, Rosenthal points out. Some patients spend from 30 minutes to five hours daily soaking...
...winter blahs (or summer blues) every year? You may suffer from seasonal affective disorder, appropriately known as SAD...