Word: mental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under Dukakis' program, employers would be required to provide a basic insurance package to workers, and to pay a portion, perhaps 80 percent, of the annual premium. The coverage would pay for hospital stays, clinical visits, tests and diagnostic services, prenatal and pediatric care, and mental health care. Dukakis' plan would also provide tax breaks to assist small businesses in establishing insurance plans...
...previous intransigence on the subject, is a stunning concession. But before the champagne is uncorked and the balloons go up -- Roth has come clean at last! -- a little caution should be maintained. For one thing, the author essentially blames this book on a period of physical distress and mental depression that he experienced during the spring of 1987: "In order to recover what I had lost, I had to go back to the moment of origin." To an inveterate novelist, apparently, telling the truth is a manifestation of disorienting illness. More troubling, there is that letter to Zuckerman...
When reports surfaced in the early 1980s that cocaine use by pregnant women could cause serious physical and mental impairment to their newborns, it was another warning that the snowy white drug was not as harmless as some believed. Doctors found that cocaine, like heroin and alcohol, could be passed from the user-mother to the fetus with disastrous results. Since then the epidemic of cocaine-afflicted babies has only become worse. The main reason: growing numbers of women are using crack, the cheap and readily available purified form of cocaine that plagues America's inner cities and has spread...
Golf is considered a boon to both physical and mental health, though almost no one ever looks or feels better after a round. While intended to be a display of self-control, fundamentally it reveals temper. Implied in the $ game's sociability are honor, forthrightness, friendship, kindness, courtesy, generosity and understanding. But nearly nowhere are frailties of character laid barer than on a golf course. After 18 holes with a stranger, you know him. And golfers are as prone as the police to develop fatalistic cynicisms about their fellow...
...last-ditch effort, Thompson has filed a motion to "restore Sharon Kowalski to capacity," meaning to help her reach her full mental and physical potential. Two weeks ago, the court ordered that Sharon undergo a formal evaluation to see if she is capable of making decisions about her future. On the whole, the courts have not been sympathetic to Thompson's case. Most states favor blood relatives as guardians of unmarried disabled people, explains Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Bio-Medical Ethics. "For children that's fine, but not for adults," says Caplan...