Word: affectingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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RIGHT now, we Harvard students have the luxury of not having to make a choice about the impending war. For most of us, the military build-up in the Gulf simply does not directly affect our daily lives, so many of us do not feel compelled to take a side. We can run about buying Secret Santa gifts and writing term papers and not realize how close we are to war. But the deadline approaches rapidly...
...able to spot problems wherever they may occur, not just those that show up in psychological disorders, says Robinowitz. There is also the danger of drug interactions. It is important to know not only which combinations of medications should be avoided but also how a particular drug might affect some pre-existing medical condition. Predicting and detecting such problems, argues Dr. John Tupper, president of the American Medical Association, "is not something one learns in a quickie course." Tupper and others believe that only full medical-school training could prepare psychologists to prescribe drugs safely. "There is no shortcut...
...taking recovery on the road." Her 1990 book, The Language of Letting Go: Meditations on Codependency, offers daily doses of wisdom on topics like "Gratitude" and "Coping with Stress." But just what is codependency? The queen decrees, "A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior." She figures that more than 80 million Americans are emotionally involved with an addict or are addicted themselves -- not just to alcohol or drugs, but also to sex, food, work or shopping. A recovering drug addict, alcoholic...
These attitudes not only affect the number of violent crimes, but also the number of crimes reported. Many men assume violence against women is acceptable, and so do many women...
...recession + -- threatens to be particularly divisive because of the increasing disparity between haves and have-nots. "In the 1930s, everyone was in the same boat and knew other people were suffering too," observes Val Farmer, a clinical psychologist and syndicated columnist from South Dakota. "The current problems affect people so unevenly that they don't pull together...