Word: swipings
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...authors take a swipe at psychotherapy, claiming that its focus on "previous negative experiences can lead to a loss of self-esteem rather than its enhancement." Their rather pat conclusion: "The key to successful therapy lies instead in creating psychological and physiological conditions which optimize the natural tendency of the nervous system to stabilize itself. TM appears to offer a systematic method to achieve this goal...
...present Parliament, oratory is often more tinny than golden. The only bon mot of the day came from Labor's former Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn. The embattled Benn responded to Tory taunts that he resign by taking an ungentlemanly swipe at Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher: "If the opposition wants my head on a salver, the leader of the Conservative Party will have to be a lot more seductive Salome than she has been so far." Less dazzling repartee came from left-wing Labor M.P. Eric Heffer, who responded testily to a pro-Market interjection by shouting...
...styles, in the objects that people surround themselves with, the way a civilization expresses itself materially. He was an avid collector of post cards and signs. "I'm interested in signs a great deal right now, so I find that I do signs wherever I find them. I usually swipe them too. I've got a wonderful collection." Sometimes he would swipe two of the same sign to give to friends as a gift. He picked up post cards wherever he went and swapped them with friends as a boy trades baseball cards...
...Tour is not all that severe. To a sympathetic party, the management quite often proffers an after-dinner liqueur. And, says Terrail, no one blinks an eye when his guests swipe souvenirs. "You're in good company," says he. "Every year 14,000 ashtrays disappear...
...National Crime Information Center, partly on the ground that the FBI records arrests as well as convictions-a man could be in the criminal file even if he was innocent. In a letter to his second cousin, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, Sargent took a swipe at Watergate ("To be frank, recent revelations concerning top government employees do not inspire confidence"), and explained that Massachusetts would join the national file system only when it provides better guarantees of individual rights...