Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Westinghouse Electric in Pittsburgh. "Nobody knows what to do. You hear talk of recession, inflation, deflation, all kinds of things." But as the stock market continues to shimmy, many firms are already trying to assess the damage to customer confidence. Said Gerald Schultz, president of Bell & Howell, a Skokie, Ill., publisher and information-services company: "We're trying to sensitize our people to get their feelers out, with their customers, with their suppliers and their staff, to see what's going to happen...
Some reform proposals are likely to help -- or hurt -- more than others, and it may not be entirely healthy that they are coming up for consideration in the wake of a traumatic and ill-understood crisis. And what regulatory changes are eventually made could still depend on how those crotchety and volatile markets perform in the months ahead...
MOST MENTALLY ill don't need the government to come to get them; their needs transcend buildings and beds. What they require is more community care. Employers should have incentives to hire, train and supervise the mentally ill. Day-care facilities, with psychiatric help, medical services and job training, must be more accessible. Now they are few and far apart, and often funding doesn't follow patients to the most convenient facilities...
...half-way houses staffed by social workers, the mentally ill can receive close personal attention and care. There they handle household duties and get job training that will ease their transition to the mainstream when they are ready...
Little steps, like the New York City plan, are signs that officials are concerned about helping the mentally ill. The ambitious programs coursing their way through state legislatures to fund more care facilities are even bigger steps. But until concern for solving the problem permeates each neighborhood, each business and each government as deeply as does the illness itself, there will be little progress...