Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suffered a mental lapse against Columbia where we started to swim the meet defensively. Our inexperience started to show," Bernal said. "Tonight we rebounded back and took charge of the meet, and never relinquished...
...addition, many of the older residents of East Boston do not speak English as a first language, and had less than three years of schooling; this, says Larson, could have brought down their test scores. The exams may also have failed to take into account the normal decline in mental acuity that comes with aging. Asks Dr. Leonard Kurland of the Mayo Clinic: "Where do you draw the line and say this is normal and this is not?" Nonetheless, one implication of the study is very clear -- and frightening: since people 85 or older make up the fastest-growing segment...
...first stage of mental manipulation is to agree enthusiastically with everything Yalies...
Best of all, this kind of mental torture involves no legal liability. It's a little known fact that Harvard-educated patriots exempted Yale affiliates from protection of the Bill of Rights. That means no due process. No trial by jury. And no protection from cruel and unusual punishment...
...edifying themes or thrill them with shocks; Van Allsburg, a small, shy man of 40, simply taps into their vast reservoir of mystery. "To puzzle children is more interesting to me than to educate or frighten them," he says. "I like to plant a seed that will start a mental process, rather than present...