Word: turnabout
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...Turnabout is fair play and it's time for me, as a man, to yell back at all the feminists who've been cussing out my sex for the last two weeks...
...reason for turnabout is that spinal manipulation has held up under study, at least for some conditions. In a report released this July by the Rand Corp., a prestigious research organization in Santa Monica, Calif., a panel of leading physicians, osteopaths and chiropractors found that chiropractic-style manipulation was helpful for a major category of patients with lower-back pain: people who are generally healthy but who had developed back trouble within the preceding two or three weeks. Another important study published last summer in the British Medical Journal compared chiropractic treatment with outpatient hospital care that included traction...
...dumb. You can't do anything right,' " says Jorg Richter, a psychologist in east Berlin. "That makes people emotionally ill." The sense of psychic distress is so widespread that politicians often use the language of clinical psychology to discuss Germany's problems. Zukunftsangst is fear of the future. Wendekrankheit -- turnabout sickness -- describes the general malaise that has accompanied the sharp dislocations associated with unification...
Kohl has been criticized for timid handling of Germany's part in the gulf war and apparent callousness about the plight of eastern Germans, 21% of whom are effectively unemployed. But it was his turnabout on taxes that sank his party's fortunes in western Germany, where three-quarters of the voters live. He promised last year that unification could be financed without new taxes, but the immense and growing costs have instead forced him to raise taxes. As of July 1, the average German will pay 7.5% more...
...Democratic Russia movement could serve as a power base for Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, now that his republic is at the forefront of the struggle against what he calls the "reactionary turnabout." Yeltsin enjoys broad support among average Soviets, but he has no effective grass-roots political organization. He also has no reliable forum for defending himself against increasingly vicious personal attacks from Kremlin-controlled television...