Word: sufferred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members and an attempt to cope with it. Minuchin says that anorexia nervosa victims are "saviors of the family" because they paper over parental conflicts that threaten to destroy the family. Psychiatrist Philip Guerin, director of the Center for Family Learning in New Rochelle, N.Y., finds that many fathers suffer heart attacks shortly after a grown son or daughter leaves home. His hypothesis: the child may have functioned as a buffer for parental conflict. Psychologist Dina Fleischer of Richmond's Medical College of Virginia reports on the family of a man who had a heart transplant in 1968: when...
...another, equally perturbing one, "Why do women define themselves as failures without a man?" Although Braudy poses many questions, for the most part she leaves them unanswered. Because she has written the diary not to interpret or rationalize her emotions, but simply to share them, its value does not suffer from the absence of satisfying explanations...
...more subtle and established practice of passive euthanasia, for which the Mass General committee did not set guidelines, is the labeling of certain patients "Do Not Resuscitate," or DNR. The designation applies to dying patients who are apt to suffer cardiac or respiratory failure. Doctors justify the practice because resuscitation only prolongs a patient painfully and at great expense. Cardiac arrest, they say, is only the last organ failure in a dying patient and to resuscitate him is not to allow nature to take its course...
...city securities held by banks round the country. Though the Federal Reserve has pledged to lend the banks enough money to keep them from closing, they might have to curtail their lending to business. Much of the remaining $11.5 billion in city securities is held by individuals, who would suffer serious losses of principal and interest and thus have their buying power reduced...
GERMANY, Western Europe's most influential economy, seems to be caught in a web of indecision. Despite some signs of recovery in recent months, the nation this year will suffer its steepest decline in output, about 3%, since the founding of the Federal Republic after World War II. The forecast for next year calls for real growth in G.N.P. of about 4%. But the upturn is beginning from such a low base-German industry today is operating at only 75% of capacity -that even with that relatively healthy advance the economy will be operating well below optimum levels...