Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consider fullscale, formal diplomatic relations. Thus it seemed a bit out of character when the White House last week announced a deal to re-establish immigration arrangements, the first agreement between the U.S. and Cuba since 1977. Castro will take back as many as 2,746 criminals and mental patients he dispatched to the U.S. along with thousands of other Mariel boat people in 1980. In return, the U.S. will begin accepting once again an orderly stream of Cuban immigrants, as well as about 3,000 anti-Castroites, former political prisoners whose promised exit from Cuba has been held...
...returned to Cuba, about 2,200 have been convicted of crimes in the U.S. and the rest have been in custody ever since they disembarked in Key West, Fla. More than 1,500 are in a federal prison in Atlanta. The rest are in state and local jails and mental institutions. They will be sent back gradually, beginning in January, about 100 being flown out each month as their cases come up in federal court for review...
...medical experts suspect that the poisoning could result in damage to the liver and the kidneys, and could have other even more harrowing effects. "The gas affects the central nervous system," said Dr. Sanjay Mittal, a doctor at Hamidia Hospital. "In my opinion, this increases the chances of permanent mental retardation." One of Mittal's senior colleagues reported that there had been eight stillbirths at Hamidia on the first day after the accident. "Pregnant women were brought to me in great pain," he said. "They had to be aborted. Children in the womb had stopped kicking and bodies were rejecting...
McLaughlin, attributing the slack-off to the comfortable lead and St. Michael's less than poor first-half performance, expressed concern about the number of mental mistakes his squad committed...
...Psychologists and sociologists are searching for an explanation for Trivial Pursuit's phenomenal popularity. Says Psychology Professor Ricki Levenson of New York University: "Trivia plugs into everybody's secret addiction to gossip. Knowledge of trivia, like the name of Princess Di's hairdresser, is mental junk food that people delight in consuming...