Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...pain appears to be psychological. Some back specialists say that in as many as 80% of all cases the pain is due not to any overt organic problem but to such elusive factors as stress, worry and other mental attitudes. Dr. John Basmajian of Canada's McMaster University puts even greater emphasis on the psychological aspect of backaches...
...some cases, when nothing seems to help the pain, the patient is malingering. He uses an injury, often minor, to press lawsuits, collect workmen's compensation and Social Security, and pick up insurance disability payments. The problem is not confined to the U.S. In Sweden 25% of workers who retire early do so because of back troubles-in many cases on the basis of obviously phony claims. Keim says facetiously that such people are suffering from "green poultice syndrome": "These patients often respond miraculously to the application of $100 bills. When the pile of bills reaches the proper thickness...
Even a future return to better economic times, however, will not solve the deep-seated problem of declining key U.S. industries. Automobiles, steel and rubber are all operating at Depression levels, plagued by aging plants, declining productivity, entrenched labor unions, restrictive Government regulations and fierce foreign competition. Highways and railroads, the vital infrastructure needed to transport goods, are badly deteriorated. In major industries like farm machinery and consumer electronics, foreign manufacturers have captured increasingly large shares of the U.S. market. America has fallen behind important world competitors, such as Japan and West Germany, in capital formation, saving and investment, spending...
Nowhere is the need for industrialization more evident than in the nation's inner cities. Most of them, despite countless Government programs, have deteriorated from once thriving business and residential centers into devastated no man's lands. Now comes a novel approach to the problem: enterprise zones, or districts in the heart of blighted areas, where small firms would be given tax breaks and perhaps exempted from entangling Government regulations...
...Wall Street law practice, he lives on his 10,000 mountainous acres in North Carolina, dabbles in his wife's philanthropies and plays a lot of golf. On the links, he has lately developed a nasty slice and the habit of blacking out and falling down. The problem is neurological, and something more. Percy writes: "There ... stands Will Barrett on the edge of a gorge in old Carolina, a talented agreeable wealthy man living in as pleasant an environment as one can imagine and yet who is thinking of putting a bullet in his brain...