Word: controller
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...side at the meeting was Patrick Carnes, a senior fellow at the Golden Valley Institute for Behavioral Medicine, outside Minneapolis, who introduced the sex-addiction theory in 1983 in his best-selling book, Out of the Shadows. Said Carnes: "What we're talking about is a loss of control and willingness to risk any kind of consequence for a pleasure that gets you so hooked you cannot stop." But other experts dismissed that argument. Contended University of Minnesota psychologist Eli Coleman, who believes compulsive sexual behaviors are types of anxiety-based disorders: "It's not an addiction. There...
...book analyzing the kinds of recoveries made by 500 sex addicts who have been in treatment for five years or more. Among the more successful cases is Burt Schneider, 48, an author from Tucson, who sought help after going through multiple extramarital affairs. "Up to a point I could control it," he says. "After that I couldn't." Schneider learned to confront his problem and share his secret torment with his wife Jennifer, an internist. Dr. Schneider, who entered a self-help program for relatives of addicts, wrote about her experiences in the book Back from Betrayal...
...cents to produce can retail for $8 -- and the risks of jail are low. Though a 1986 federal statute makes it a felony to import, export or conduct interstate trade in paraphernalia, no federal law bans its manufacture. Moreover, while all states except Alaska have passed laws to control the sale of paraphernalia, the crime is typically a loosely enforced misdemeanor. "These guys simply do not face an equivalent risk for the harm that they are producing," says Richard Wintory, director of the National Drug Prosecution Center...
...created to subsidize such big-ticket events and famous names. Its brief is diversity; it is not a ministry of culture with control over museums, theaters or operas. All it can do on $170 million a year is give seed-money grants to a wide variety of cultural projects, many of them small, marginal, obscure and quite outside the field of prestige corporate underwriting. About 85,000 of these grants, nearly 90% of them for less than $50,000 each, have been distributed since 1965. But, though seldom large, the NEA grant is a powerful magnet for corporate dollars...
Iliescu's background as a former senior Communist Party official failed to outweigh the personal popularity he has won since the Front came to power last December. Working in his favor were generous food imports, an end to miserly controls over heat and light, and a go-slow approach to economic reform that has so far avoided layoffs and higher prices. The relative obscurity of his opposition rivals and their lack of support among rural and industrial workers also helped. Iliescu has said he will model Romania's economy on that of Sweden, while retaining government control of heavy industry...