Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government regularly raids its so-called trust funds," Steve Forbes explains in a recent Forbes magazine column. "Imagine looting your employees' pension plan each year and treating the ill-gotten moneys as operating receipts." The trust fund only exists because the ratio of workers to retiree is high. A Social Security crisis will arise when the baby boomers retire. Then, the government will require more revenue to pay retirement benefits than it will accrue by taxing the nation's reduced work force...
Those who suspect that they or someone they care about may be depressed should see a professional, either their primary health care provider or a therapist through University Health Services or the Bureau of Study Counsel. A person should not feel ashamed because they are mentally ill; nor should psychopharmacology or therapeutic psychotherapy be considered taboo. These more so than any other known treatments are the keys to regaining one's mental health and returning to a normal level of functioning...
...unfortunate that a school with students so aware of the dangers of other mental disorders such as substance abuse can be so ill-informed about a disorder as common and as serious as depression. LAURA M. LAWLESS...
...cramped in Littauer Hall, with some professors' offices located amid cubicles in the basement. The building does not afford space for either concentration's tutorial offices, with economics undergraduates having to trek to 20 Garden St. and government students to 53 Church St. Moreover, the Government Department is particularly ill-served by the current arrangement. Twenty of the department's professors are already located in Coolidge Hall, resulting in a division of resources and a geographical barrier, albeit somewhat minor, to communication among government faculty and students...
...anything good comes out of this dark episode in American politics, it will be a re-examination of the ill-conceived laws that made it possible. Perhaps Democrats and Republicans, in an act of mutual disarmament, will finally let the law expire when it comes up for a reauthorization vote next year. And perhaps the Supreme Court will seize the opportunity presented in several cases this year to refine the definition of harassment in ways that recall its core meaning of sex discrimination in the workplace. Finally, Congress could acknowledge that the Supreme Court was too optimistic in the Clinton...