Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though individuals still account for the great bulk of giving (private donors gave 80% of the $144 billion raised by charities in 1995), some are worried that charities that aren't sexy enough to attract business support will suffer. Where would that leave relatively unpopular causes such as mental illness? "Ninety percent of the charity universe doesn't benefit from the hundreds of millions of dollars generated through cause marketing," notes Robert Bothwell, president of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy...
...government may devote as many as two weeks to illustrate McVeigh's mental world. It is important for the prosecutors to make the jurors feel they know McVeigh, know he was capable of great evil and know he had the motive to perpetrate such evil. To do that, they will recount his life as they...
...Dorris' most recognized achievement was his 1989 nonfiction book The Broken Cord. In it Dorris describes how, at age 26, he adopted a three-year-old Sioux boy, becoming one of the first single men in America to legally adopt a child. The child, Abel, had a constellation of mental and physical disabilities caused by the fact that his mother drank heavily during her pregnancy. Part memoir, part medical investigation into fetal-alcohol syndrome, especially among Native Americans, The Broken Cord was a best seller and became a 1992 made-for-TV movie. It also sparked congressional hearings into...
Running in a marathon is not just a strain on your body: in some ways, runners say, it's a mental nightmare...
...would stress the mental aspect of knowing that you can do it," Hurley says. "In the last couple miles, finishing becomes an obsession...