Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend...
Worry & Save. To the distress of merchants and the dismay of the Government, the consumer has been conserving. The University of Michigan's Survey Research Center found that consumer confidence, as measured by the center's index of sentiment, dropped last November and December to its lowest point since the recession of 1958. In spite of record-high personal income, consumption rose only sluggishly and the demand for consumer credit reached its lowest point in four years. Personal saving, on the other hand, rose to 5.9% of income...
...general health preoccupation in many neurotic and phychotic disorders and as illustrative of the essential psychobiologic unity of the organism. There is also the implication that many students who seek psychiatric help may already have been seen in the medical or surgical clinics, and some signs of their psychic distress may have been evident at that time. Many people apparently find it easier to go to the general physician rather than the psychiatrist. The results do indicate the value of close collaboration between the psychiatrist and the internist and surgeon, both before and after psychotherapy has begun...
...billion deficit had caused Erhard's Cabinet to break up. With some sleight of hand, he did so, and he managed to put some steam back into the lagging economy by speeding up federal spending. He also struck at the root cause of Erhard's financial distress: the billion-dollar offset payments that Bonn makes yearly to support U.S. and British forces in Germany. Contending that Bonn no longer had the financial health to afford such large payments, Kiesinger stuck to his position until the U.S. last week suggested a new, less painful monetary scheme under which Bonn...
...wholly excusable. The conduct of foreign affairs exposes its practitioners to more crises than in any other walk of life except perhaps the university president. The United States maintains missions in some 119 countries, and at any time of the day or night a signal of more or less distress is coming in to the State Department message center from at least one of them. In the wee hours, the cables marked NIACT, or "night action," are rushed to a duty officer who has to decide whether to call and wake the appropriate assistant secretary, remembering that the assistant secretary...