Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...belief that extracurricular activities, such as the Parliamentary debate team, should be basically self-supporting, while sports teams should not. Who came up with this idea? Fortunately, other schools (like Princeton, Rhode Island College, and the most of the rest of the planet) do not share this mental paralysis...
...recruits from the city's reserve list, a roster of previously approved part-time officers, were approved on the basis of their scores on civil service, physical and mental examinations...
...startling discovery, reported in Nature by an international trio of research teams, marks only the third time such a genetic phenomenon has been found. Last year researchers revealed a similar process in two much rarer inherited diseases: fragile X syndrome, a form of mental retardation; and spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, a wasting disease...
...Courier won three and made the finals of two others. Says novelist Eliot Berry, whose book about the past two years on the tennis circuit, Tough Draw, will be published in August: "Tennis is in significant part a game of intimidation. Although Courier is well behaved, his physical and mental toughness make him very intimidating. He is probably the strongest man on the tour, the one you would least want to take on in a fight...
...before she and Barr have leaped into bed--Heather, in a cough-syrup induced alcoholic frenzy, crushes her husband's (Eric Roberts) skull with a dumbbell. Barr gets his best friends to defend her, and she is found innocent by means of "pathological intoxication" and sent to a mental hospital...