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...lends itself to the cynical misinterpretation that good psychotherapy is too expensive for the average person. On the contrary, it is too expensive for society not to provide good psychiatric care for all who need it. Failure to do so results in far greater indirect costs to society in terms of increased medical expenses, absenteeism, child abuse, delinquency, crime and alcoholism, among other problems. The shorter-term treatments that I and others have been advocating for some (not all) conditions are not inferior substitutes, but actually more effective ways of achieving desired therapeutic objectives...
...going to add that there are major problems with the substitutes the Administration is considering for the lost listening posts. One is to establish ground monitoring sites in other countries bordering on the Soviet Union. But Glenn feels that these nations are too unstable politically to ensure a long-term relationship with the U.S. Another alternative is to send U-2 spy planes, crammed with special electronic gear, flying along the Soviet border. But these same countries might be needed to permit U-2 overflights...
Legal revenge is expensive; fees for special prosecutors in murder cases run from $5,000 to $10,000, and some lawyers speculate that Melton paid a private lawyer $25,000. He denies it, but whatever he paid, he was not satisfied with the result, a ten-year prison term for Roberts for manslaughter. Says Melton: "He should've gotten more...
LEVY: The Iranian revolution triggered a real crisis. The protests against corruption and excessive development will encourage other OPEC countries to slow oil production. There is nothing in sight that would lead to very substantial increases in oil supplies in the immediate or even medium-term future...
Fish, the only living member of the Walter Camp All-Time All-American football team and eight-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, reminisced about a vicious Yale-Harvard basketball game in 1908 before awarding the first Hamilton Fish Most Improved Player Award to Donald Fleming, a freshman who averaged almost 12 points per outing...