Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ed Koch, New York City's voluble mayor, recently recounted how he had toured Manhattan in the company of some mental health experts. Concerned about the mentally ill who live on the streets, Hizzoner had decided to do some sidewalk research. On the tony Upper East Side, the group encountered...
To Asian-American activists, one of the most serious signs of discrimination is the admissions quotas they believe leading universities have established. "If you are an Asian-American student applying to Harvard, you have the lowest chance of getting in," says Peter Kiang, who teaches Asian-American studies at the...
At the same time, federal banking officials are readying a rescue mission for an ailing Texas bank, Houston-based First City Bancorporation (assets: $12.2 billion), which has lost more than $500 million in the past year and a half. The Government is expected to commit as much as $1 billion...
P.G. Wodehouse remarks, "The tragedy of life is that your early heroes lose their glamor . . . with Doyle I don't have this feeling." All Sherlockians would agree. After all, they are looking at their own dreams. That is why the detective and the doctor can never go out of style...
When a doctor finally persuaded her uncle and guardian to find a healthier place, she was installed in a New Jersey "preventorium," an institution where pretubercular children were supposedly toughened up by studying and sleeping in the open air, even in midwinter. Eventually pronounced "cured," the child was first taken...