Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unions' economic proposals, which have been on the table for several weeks, call for 7 percent across-the-board salary increases for each of the next three years, university-subsidized daycare for employees' children, paid maternity leave, increased monitoring of health and safety issues, and improvement of mental and dental insurance, Fortes said...
Congressman Dick Cheney asked what Gorbachev wanted his country to be in 20 years. He hoped, Gorbachev replied, to see a society more dynamic, more open and more democratic. Billington made a mental note that the translation was more appealing than the original Russian...
...write this from my padded room in the Cambridge Hospital for the Stupid, repenting whatever mental weakness brought me into the movement in the first place. I can only hope that the wave of insanity that spread through Harvard in my day never returns' to wreak its havoc again...
...uprisings were sparked by the Administration's announcement that Cuba's Fidel Castro had agreed to take back 2,545 criminals and mental patients who $ had come to the U.S. among the 125,000 Cubans in the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Some 7,600 Cubans are being held in 100 locations because they committed crimes or were found ineligible for U.S. residence. Those at Oakdale and Atlanta rioted, torching buildings and seizing hostages to show that they would rather stay in jail than go back to Cuba...
...produced the hairy tube of "Crest" and waved it in fury, as the crowd gasped in shock. They all firmly denied any involvement, and two years later, after I was finally released from the mental hospital into which I was imprisoned for no good reason, I returned to school to finish my education...