Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women have three solid recruits arriving: Jamie Henikoff of Wilmette, Ill.; Amy Delone of Concord (among New England's top three players, 18 and under) and Eva Marie Blazek of Kelowna, British Columbia...
...institutions did shrink, though, from a peak of 560,000 in 1955 to some 146,000 in 1984. In New York, the number declined from 93,000 in 1955 to about 20,000 today. One-fifth to one-third of America's homeless are now considered mentally ill...
...early '70s. Radical Psychiatrist R.D. Laing popularized the rather romantic notion that insanity could be a sane reaction to an insane world, while Sociologist Erving Goffman suggested that institutions, by their very nature, stifled individual development. Courts began to protect the rights of the mentally ill against the encroachments of the state. But in the 1980s, the continual seesaw in America between individual freedom and society's responsibility is tipping again...
Trading stock options is a high-risk business. That is why Jack Keller of Winnetka, Ill., took up the trade: compared with his previous career as a professional poker player, being a market maker looked low key. Keller, the No. 2 U.S. money winner at poker -- $300,000 this year -- has traded a seat at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for one on the Chicago Board Options Exchange...
...York City' s plans for involuntary hospitalization of the homeless mentally ill provoke some morally perplexing questions...