Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furniture is tattered, and a lot of the art is homemade. There are a few storebought prints--one is of flowers in a flowerpot and hangs above a primitive, impressionistic crepe-paper poster also resembling a flowerpot. Distorted. Things often get distorted, like the self-images of healthy women and girls, women who think they would be worthier if only they were thinner or if they ate less or purged more...
There is literature in the room, papers and pamphlets for the counselors and visitors to read. It tells of the physical dangers of Bulimiarexia, binge eating often followed by purging through laxatives or self-induced vomiting, and Anorexia Nervosa, willful self-starvation...
...think, is identity--being insecure, not having a strong sense of self--these are a lot of the psychological things," she says...
Three things make next week's debut of the St. Louis Sun a little different. First, owner Ralph Ingersoll II, 43, is no self-deluding newcomer but a crafty revamper of smaller papers whose privately held companies have sales that place them among the top dozen U.S. newspaper groups -- and whose biggest concentration of holdings is in the suburbs of St. Louis. Second, Ingersoll has inherited knowledge about the trials of a big-city start-up: his late father Ralph, a onetime general manager of Time Inc., founded the critically acclaimed New York City daily PM, which lasted eight years...
Sometimes, winning your heart's desire is the first step toward losing it. Canadian developer Robert Campeau is learning that lesson, and has only begun ; to pay the price. A onetime machinist's apprentice and a self-made real estate tycoon, Campeau, 66, borrowed his way to the top shelf of the U.S. retailing industry. He spent $3.6 billion in 1986 to buy the Allied group of stores (holdings: Brooks Brothers, Bonwit Teller and Jordan Marsh). Last year he won a $6.6 billion bidding war with R.H. Macy for control of Federated Department Stores, a costly victory that gained...