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The Blancks used the term border-line to refer to a broad range of pathology that is not always clearly differentiated from the neuroses and the psychoses and that is characterized by impaired ego functioning, overwhelming affects, poor impulse control, and disturbed capacity for interpersonal relations.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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The Blancks used the term border-line to refer to a broad range of pathology that is not always clearly differentiated from the neuroses and the psychoses and that is characterized by impaired ego functioning, overwhelming affects, poor impulse control, and disturbed capacity for interpersonal relations.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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That's border-line fraud when it's done to get respect and/or employment that the person hasn't earned.
kateelliott: Pseudonymity kateelliott 2009
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“I can see excluding a close call like Palemiro, but none of those guys would be border-line calls without the PED taint.”
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Healthy critcism is a good thing, but distorting the facts in order to demonize the other side is border-line treeason if executed by our elected officials.
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BTW – i have concluded that Jim DeMint (R-SC), like all the remaining Republicans, is a border-line retard.
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Obviously, women would rather look border-line Tammy Faye Baker than look at the big picture.
Paul Venoit: Lashes -- Going to Extremes Paul Venoit 2011
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I can see excluding a close call like Palemiro, but none of those guys would be border-line calls without the PED taint.
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Obviously, women would rather look border-line Tammy Faye Baker than look at the big picture.
Paul Venoit: Lashes -- Going to Extremes Paul Venoit 2011
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“I can see excluding a close call like Palemiro, but none of those guys would be border-line calls without the PED taint.”
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