Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Society. "We have the gut feeling they're good for you, but how they're good and what can be done with that, we don't know." Now things are beginning to change. A variety of health professionals have started to assess rigorously pets' impact on physical and mental health. Meanwhile, the beneficiaries of programs in prisons, hospitals and nursing homes do not much care about cool science but are warmly grateful for what amounts to animal therapy. A groundbreaking study came in 1980, when researchers from the Universities of Maryland and Pennsylvania reported on the survival rate...
WORD HAS it that rumors about President Reagan's mental competence are debilitating his presidency. The truth is that these rumors are debilitating the public's ability to judge their president...
...endless and senseless speech at the end of his first debate with Walter Mondale in 1984. Even his friends were worried--the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, for instance, questioned the president's health. Reagan was kept in seclusion. Americans were given sufficient time to draw their mental pictures of Reagan as an aged grandparent...
...this is indicative of the apallingly low expectations we have for this president. Convinced of his senility, we wait for Reagan to prove his mental incompetence before the nation. In the process, we disregard more serious questions about his competence. When we begin to equate being "presidential" with being healthy, we degrade the office and make a farce of democracy...
...more serious test of outlining the priorities of a Dole Administration. So far, he has provided little more than a legislative shopping list of proposals for dealing with the deficit, trade and other matters. Even supporters suggest that Dole's immersion in the details of legislation has blocked the mental leap to a broad-gauge view of national leadership required of a presidential candidate. Says his political consultant David Keene: "Legislative experience teaches you to be tactical and think on an ad hoc basis. He's got to reach inside himself and talk about what he believes and what...