Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Substantial deficit reduction did not occur this term in Congress. Thus, some argue, we need the line-item veto. Yet while we must reduce the deficit, undermining the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances is not the way. Vesting both executive and legislative power in one person, the President, is asking for abuse. Congress must not sell itself to the President...
Such gains, however, are usually short term. They are often based on the patient's feeling of superiority to an unethical therapist or simply a sense of relief that he has been able to avoid confronting his own problems by the therapist's antics. Often, says the author, therapist and patient collude to keep each other's destructive and frightening impulses at bay. Writes Langs: "Patients will often go from one disturbed therapist to another, seeking a form of madness that is more comfortably suited to their own mad needs and defenses." Virtually every patient in Langs' study who left...
...petition showed $9.4 million in debts, the Governor estimates that the actual figure will be somewhere between $4.8 million and $6.75 million. His listed assets total $7,518,000 but include a $7.5 million claim against one of his partners. Herschler, 66, is a Democrat serving an unprecedented third term in an overwhelmingly Republican state. A poll taken in August indicated that he remains the most popular politician in Wyoming...
...flamingo of Florida postcards and golf courses seems to smile because it feeds with its head upside down. The adaptation suggests that evolution does not always take the easiest way up. Sex Researcher Alfred Kinsey developed his investigative skills studying vespid insects, thus giving fuller meaning to the term stirring up a hornet's nest. The disappearance of .400 hitters in baseball, says Gould, may have less to do with equipment changes than with standardizing methods of play...
...registered to vote and took over the city council, changing the name Antelope to Rajneesh in 1984. Sheela was responsible for the scheme to recruit about 3,500 homeless people for the commune last fall, in what observers believe was an attempt to load the voting rolls against longer-term residents of Wasco County. However, many of the transients later departed. Sheela's latest plan, the bhagwan said, was to build a housing complex for AIDS victims in Rajneesh. His reaction was less than charitable: "I said this is not right. You would be putting the whole of Oregon...