Suicide "can also represent the learned or transmitted way of coping with unbearable stress, " Peterson said.

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And rapacious as those interest rates seem - it's funny, if you look around the world, very poor people have a way of coping with them.

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Such a set-up is an elegant way of coping with a national shortage at the top: one head and five deputies are easier to find than two of each.

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This fund has to last three years and the only way of coping with demand has been to hold three-monthly application windows where grant quotas are reached within 30 minutes - this is a woefully inadequate solution.

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Is a single large company the most efficient and effective way of providing electricity, and of coping with such emergencies as the one posed by Sandy this year, Irene last year, or Gloria a long time ago.

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"I hope the verdict has provided the answers the family sought and takes them some way further towards coping with the loss of Charlee, " he said.

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New research into happiness and coping offers proof of the value of finding a way to remain distanced from problems in order to tackle them effectively.

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"It's a great way to introduce people into something that then later becomes ... sort of their coping mechanism, as opposed to picking up a drink or a drug, " Strode said.

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