Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ackermann speaks emotionally of the inhumane treatment of special needs children in Massachusetts' institutions. And she speaks with eyewitness experience gained while serving as a delegate to the Commonwealth's Inter-Agency Planning Group on Children with Special Needs...
...takes its toll on Ackermann herself. As we speak, she is at times the young windblown woman on the campaign posters, hot on a favorite topic like the treatment of troubled youth or the mentally ill. At other times she seems halting, uncomfortable and downright tired as she runs through her paces on standard topics...
...committee's findings at Northampton State Hospital were typical. "The staff, especially the weekend staff, served as mere custodians. They had been given no sense of the worth of their jobs and they had no treatment to offer. In such places," says Ackermann, "very often no one even knows who is in charge." It is the children, patients and inmates who inevitably suffer most in these environments...
...newspaper in the Bahamas], had called at Government House to tender his respects. Windsor, who was standing just outside the main gate, dismissed Dupuch with the withering comment: 'Colored people to the tradesmen's entrance.' " TIME cites this as an example of the duke's treatment of colored Bahamians...
Helicopters hover above local picnic grounds, trailing long banners promoting the attractions of working at different firms. The Sunday editions of the San Jose Mercury-News bulge with up to 50 pages of help wanted ads. Television commercials promise job applicants VIP treatment if they deign to drop in for an interview...