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Researchers generally agree that the disease has purely psychological origins. Some therapists believe that young girls become anoretics out of fear of sexuality; by reducing their body weight to childlike proportions, they stall the process of becoming a woman. (Menstruation almost invariably ceases, or in the case of younger girls does not begin after such severe weight loss.) Other therapists see the disease as a symbolic "oral rebellion" against overcontrolling and troubled parents...
...Fact. All three principals, however, would probably agree on one key fact: the Sinai talks were indeed closer to a make-or-break point than ever before. Both Egypt and Israel were anxious to reach an accord, although even small details in dispute could stall any agreement. But with two weeks remaining before the expiration of the latest mandate for United Nations peacekeeping troops in Sinai, there was still time for additional "clarification"-or for more hands to be played in what one Israeli diplomat called "a giant poker game with stupendous stakes...
...their fans and the Sox and themselves. It's all love and hate. When Yaz steps up to the dugout side of the plate and kicks at the dirt like a racehorse, as he has for fifteen years, his third spot in the line-up is like a stall with his prize of a name on it. The fans boo, or some of them do, always. They find an excuse, and they never fail to because he expresses all the disappointments of Boston fans for a decade. They are high expectations, derived in part from the yearly and wildly optimistic...
...Even if it is overturned, Judge Sinha's decision is likely to have far-reaching consequences for Prime Minister Gandhi. As the Times of India put it in an editorial, "The immediate impact will be to detract from her moral authority, undermine the cohesion of the ruling party, stall policy decisions, and make the management of the country's affairs even more nerve-racking than...
...parliamentary inquiry." Although conservative Senators angrily assailed Rockefeller for this high-handed tactic, Rocky was technically right. The Senate rules specifically permit the presiding officer to ignore a parliamentary inquiry when he believes it is being used as a dilatory tactic. Allen's whole aim was to stall; he outsmarted himself by saying precisely why he sought recognition. Nor was Rockefeller's ruling that the Senate is a noncontinuing body all that extraordinary. Vice Presidents Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon had taken the same stand in previous filibuster fights...