Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration kept a close eye on the Costa Rica summit. In a whirlwind tour of Central America two weeks ago, Lieut. General Colin Powell, Reagan's National Security Adviser, irritated Nicaragua's neighbors by suggesting that they might suffer U.S. aid cutbacks if they abandoned the contras. Powell also urged them to condemn the Sandinistas' intransigence as a major obstacle to peace. The Administration's critics saw the mission as part of an overall plan to topple the Sandinistas by using the contras to wage a proxy war. The outcome of last week's summit, however, seemed...
Krabacher suffers from SAD, short for seasonal affective disorder, a syndrome characterized by severe seasonal mood swings. "This is more than the winter blahs," says Psychiatrist Carla Hellekson of Fairbanks. "This is something that needs to be taken care of." Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health began studying and defining the syndrome in the early 1980s; it received formal acceptance this spring, when it was included for the first time in the American Psychiatric Association's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition). Says NIMH Research Psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal, a pioneer in SAD studies...
...winter blahs (or summer blues) every year? You may suffer from seasonal affective disorder, appropriately known...
...interim relief to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak. The disaster claimed 2,866 lives and left some 40,000 people seriously injured. In a 17- page ruling, Judge M.W. Deo argued that while "diverse loud voices" hold up a settlement, the "poor gas victims" continue to suffer. The courts, he said, have "inherent powers" to administer justice...
Middle-class battered women are likely to suffer their plight in dutiful silence. Says Psychologist Mary Donahue of Rockville, Md.: "Often this is the quintessential good girl, bright, with some education, overprotected and without a particular career path." Generally such women give themselves over to their spouse's needs, subsuming their identities to their husband's -- and often losing their self-esteem in the process. Invariably they blame themselves for their mate's abusive behavior. Once, when her physician-husband smacked her across the face, Amy, 30, of Brooklyn, N.Y., remembers saying, "Honey, let me give you a doughnut. Maybe...