Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...messy concerns boil down to one question: Is Dole too old? Is he physically capable of completing what amounts to three back-to-back marathons: running the Senate, running for President and then completing four and possibly eight years as Commander in Chief without a noticeable degradation of energy, mental acuity or temperament...
...gave Dole hope of turning his age into an advantage. "Your critics," Nixon wrote, "will try to focus on the age issue. However, after four years of Clinton and his baby boomers, age may not prove to be a liability ... Most important, you have not lost any of your mental sharpness. Looking back over the years, I vividly recall that De Gaulle, Adenauer, Yoshida and Zhou Enlai were all in top form mentally in their...
Moreover, the very concept of "disability" has become clouded. While few would dispute that those who are blind, deaf or in wheelchairs have special needs, the law's vague definition of a disability as "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities" has provoked an outcropping of frivolous lawsuits. In Indiana a customer filed a complaint against a restaurant because a waiter refused to carve the meat for the man's ailing mother. A Louisiana television anchorwoman sued for time off to receive fertility treatments. In each case, the charges were thrown...
...state Department of Mental Retardation (DMR) is offering counseling and medical exam assistance for the subjects, many of whom have questions about the tests...
...minute, you think he's being cuckolded by his wife and abandoned by his daughter. But at the end of the play, Haseltine's character has it all--the robbers are gone and the wife has returned to his side. Too bad his daughter gets taken away to a mental institution. Haseltine effectively maintains the intrigue that is vital to the success of the play...