Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...perverse but also debatable strain of conventional criticism is that Gorbachev is improvising without a blueprint. According to three cliches now in vogue, he is riding a tiger, trying to stay one step ahead of the sheriff, leaping from one ice floe to another. In short, he has lost control of events and doesn't really know what he is doing...
...greatest danger -- to Chamorro and to the U.S. -- comes from the Sandinista People's Army and the internal police. Hard-liners in the F.S.L.N. are balking at turning over control of the security forces to Chamorro, and many fear vengeance from the contras who still roam the countryside. The Sandinistas want the rebels to disband first. The contras in turn have expressed reluctance to put down their weapons until after Chamorro takes power on April...
Many physicians still deride mind-body therapies as something akin to quackery. Some fear that patients may abandon standard treatment to try unproved therapies. Doctors are also concerned that patients may blame themselves for not being able to control illness. "It is enough to have a diagnosis of cancer," says Dr. Jimmie Holland, chief of psychiatry at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. "It is too much to be told you caused the damn thing...
...World War II. Amid the rejoicing, however, some cautionary notes are in order. A fragmenting giant with an immense nuclear arsenal must be carefully watched for signs of instability. That would be particularly true if the U.S.S.R. unraveled to a point at which a Russian chauvinist republic might control it. Such concerns are real, if premature. As William Webster, the director of the CIA, testified in Washington last week, it is possible that Gorbachev's enemies could one day try to oust him. But for now, "those demanding an acceleration of reform still have the upper hand...
...society, the definition of success is male-tough, in control, not needing anything-and this is associated with a thin, virile body," said McKenna. "I find many of the women I counsel trying harder than most...