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...Depression usually involves people who feel hopeless, helpless and worthless," Gill said. He stressed four factors as being crucial to suicide early life losses, a family history of suicides, pressure from successful parents, and narrow pre-professional goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UHS Psychiatrist Says High Goals Trigger Suicides | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...suffer in silence through dull required courses about "teaching methods." But Mrs. II-ene lanniello, a senior at the University of Bridgeport, has decided to stage a one-woman revolt. Claiming that the "Methods and Materials in Teaching Basic Business Subjects" course she had to take last year was "worthless," she sued the school to get her tuition and expenses back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Suing for Not Learning | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

That is certainly true. Inflation is running at 85% per year, the currency is practically worthless, and many staples are almost unobtainable. Ugandans do not complain lest they receive a visit from Amin's public safety unit, a corps of goons in dark glasses who, as a Ugandan exile put it, "specialize in making people disappear-permanently." For those who disappear only temporarily, there is the prospect of torture: Kampala abounds with tales of prisoners who have been buried to their necks in cesspools, forced to beat comrades to death or compelled to engage in cannibalism. Shopkeepers accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Murderous Anarchy | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...robber baron. 74. Al Capone, gangster. 75. Fear itself; between 14 and 17 million. 76. Hoover, in 1928. 77. The Federal Reserve System. 78. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve System. 79. The company was cited in oil scandals, and stock became worthless within months of Veblen's investment. 80. Nixon. 81. Earl Butz. 82. Walter Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. 83. Time. Other magazines said much the same thing. 84. Nixon. 85. Nixon, in 1973. 86. Federal Reserve Board chairman Arthur Burns. 87. Time. 88. President...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Guess-What's-Just-Around-the-Corner Quiz | 1/22/1975 | See Source »

...inexcusable (the worthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whole Look of Heaven | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

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