Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pizza today, or 'Tex-Mex?'" You all then pause and squint, trying desperately to decipher the images appearing on the 70-square-foot video-screen to the rear of the space; studying the near traumatizing effect of watching giant images fading out before they ever completely fade in. Mental torment aside, however, the Commons is truly a remarkable place for students...
Subtle tricks may have increased the psychics' batting average. The CIA investigators suspected that the psychics may have been subconsciously coaxed to the correct targets by their handlers. Many were former military intelligence officers whose mental pictures of far-off sites may have been informed by experience. The CIA study also found evidence that the handlers sometimes embellished what the psychics saw. "Folks want to believe that the paranormal is for real," says Martin Gardner, one of the founders of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. And at least one Senator--Claiborne Pell...
...least two dozen caseworkers in one of the department's divisions still wrangle over five cars. In Georgia's Barrow County, the general emergency funds to pay rent deposits, buy milk or fill a prescription usually run out by the middle of each month, and all the mental-health programs have waiting lists. Caseworkers in New York City lack computers; pens, white-out and photocopying paper are also limited. Sometimes, as a matter of policy, they put the phones on hold to reduce the volume of calls...
Even when "family preservation" is the right goal in theory, caseworkers say, it is becoming increasingly difficult to enact, owing to wholesale cuts in the programs they use to shore up a household in crisis. Drug and alcohol counseling, mental-health services, emergency housing funds, day care, homemaker assistance and parenting courses have already been scaled back in most places, and may disappear entirely under the legislation that Congress is considering, which would also slice up to $2.9 billion more from child-protection services nationwide. Republican cost cutters insist that the states can do more with less...
What would you say to them, Mr. Lat, when they realize that, despite much hard work, they have failed? Would you tell them to be miserable for the rest of their lives? In its own way, that sort of mental torment can be just as destructive as physical abuse...