Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...births. There are more powerful forces at work than a $300 monthly check. Columnist George Will warns fellow conservatives against saying "nothing could be worse" than the current system. They are underestimating the potential damage to children, he argues. He recalls similar rhetoric about another broken system: state-run mental hospitals. Patients were discharged into community-based programs for their own good. Turns out, something was worse: homelessness...
...Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) would have extended coverage up to 185 percent of poverty levels. Standard coverage by Medicaid today can be as high as 133 percent in some states. In addition, Dole left out many of the benefits including prescription drugs and outpatient mental health care, that Democratic and consensus plans would have instituted...
...beautiful sounds of grunts, squeals and yelps filled Flushing Meadows this past fortnight, which meant only one thing: Monica Seles was back. At the U.S. Open, which was only her second tournament since returning from her 28-month physical and mental convalescence, the 21-year-old Seles was so impressive in her play and delightful in her presence that she instantly energized women's tennis. And together with Steffi Graf, she resumed one of the great rivalries in sports. Their final on Saturday, which Graf won 7-6 (8-6), 0-6, 6-3, went a long way toward erasing...
Ferrara focused on keeping that mental sharpness in the offseason. He spent a lot of time improving his reads on defenses and coverages. He watched game film, over and over and over again. When a quarterback spends day after day on the exercise bike, what else...
...pronounced taboo. Surely this custom evolved in part out of a desire to dissuade potential suicides from believing they would be celebrated in death. Today, of course, we realize that there exist' legitimate reasons why an individual might wish to terminate his or her life; we also know that mental illness sometimes induces a person to self-destruct. So, for the most part, we afford the same respects to suicides as we do to anyone else who has died. We do so even realizing that we are in some respect rewarding them for devastating the lives of loved ones...