Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...employee. It applies to touching of the body as well as demands for friendship in situations where a spurned advance might jeopardize one's employment. People should not act in such ways. We have worked hard to arrive at a point where we take seriously threats to the mental equilibrium of a worker. A dignified work relationship requires reserve and courtesy. Simple human decency forbids the exercise of power to punish one who refuses to become the victim of the desires of another person. BENET DAVETIAN Montreal...
...also had a highly sophisticated, tactical mind. William Allen White said that Roosevelt "thought with his hips"--an apercu that might better be applied to Ronald Reagan, whose intelligence was intuitive, and even to Franklin Roosevelt, who never approached "Cousin Theodore" in smarts. White probably meant that T.R.'s mental processor moved so fast as to fuse thought and action...
...control over their bodies by attributing such quotes to Sanger as "More children from the fit, less from the unfit--that is the chief issue of birth control." Sanger didn't say those words; in fact, she condemned them as a eugenicist argument for "cradle competition." To her, poor mental development was largely the result of poverty, overpopulation and the lack of attention to children. She correctly foresaw racism as the nation's major challenge, conducted surveys that countered stereotypes regarding the black community and birth control, and established clinics in the rural South with the help of such African...
...Chinese people had endured, it seems not to have been too hard for Mao to persuade them of the visionary force and practical need for the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s. In Mao's mind, the intensive marshaling of China's energies would draw manual and mental labor together into a final harmonious synthesis and throw a bridge across the chasm of China's poverty to the promised socialist paradise on the other side...
...satisfied with how we are playing," Forst said. "We have been making a lot of mental mistakes on the bases and in the field, and those are the things that hurt you in the long run. Physical errors happen but we have got to eliminate the mental mistakes...