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The disabilities include such dubious afflictions as "dysgraphia"--that is, bad handwriting.
In Rome, La Repubblica said in a front-page comment by Sandro Viola that "seldom in history has a country received from the same person so many reasons for hope and then so many afflictions as ...
As if to confirm that the various afflictions of designers have infected the UK operations of Oxford University Press, we are now faced with Greenbaum's Grammar , which can only be said to have suffered.
94-142: Federal Register, Dec. 29, 1977, p65083) rely on delineating such afflictions.
The difficulty that arises with mental and psychological afflictions is that the procedures are not well established--indeed, might be said to be quite chaotic, ranging from putting patients into straitjackets to having them lie down to “free associate” or otherwise try to relieve themselves of their burdens, or to administer tranquilizers or other drugs that alter the chemistry of the brain.