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Langs thinks the "overwhelming responsibilities" of therapists push even some of the best-intentioned into imposing their own madness on therapy | sessions. Many, he says, "function well in their own lives, then come into the office and express their own mad concerns." Under the heading of mad therapies, Langs, a strict Freudian, includes all the sunny, upbeat treatments that are based on reassuring patients of their wonderful qualities. Some therapists in Langs' study assured their patients that their husbands or wives were the really crazy people. After a terrifying nightmare, one patient was told by his therapist that his dream...
...corporate ladder, Bell discovered a "peculiar management structure" at Hutton with fuzzy personal responsibilities. No one, for example, was willing to admit being the immediate boss of Morley, the cash manager. Wrote Bell: "Morley is now an orphan, seemingly lost or at least in limbo along with his corporate function." Even so, the investigator found fault with Lynch because "he should have been aware of potential abuses of overdrafting...
...country in his own name had not yet come when Andropov died in February 1984. The Kremlin Old Guard conferred the leadership on the 72-year- old Konstantin Chernenko. But Chernenko was all too obviously an interim leader, and when he also became too ill to function, Gorbachev conducted the weekly Politburo meetings and headed the government in all but name. The final step occurred on March 10, 1985, when Chernenko died and the Secretariat elected Gorbachev General Secretary less than five hours later. Nominating Gorbachev for that post, Gromyko gave what has since become the standard one- line description...
...risk . . . (Most of) these children should be allowed to attend school and after-school day-care . . . in an unrestricted setting." Indeed, there are no known instances of a child with AIDS infecting his parents or siblings. The report did caution that preschool-age children and those who lack bodily function control or who have open sores should be treated with care in order to "minimize exposure of other children to blood or body fluids...
...offers," said Nevada's Democratic Governor, Richard Bryan. Laxalt has promised to remain in Washington through Reagan's second term to serve as a troubleshooter at the President's "beck and call." Said he: "I do (Reagan's) missionary work in the Senate. I hope to continue that function...