Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...self-worth. People who have lost their jobs experience anger, denial and a need to grieve, just as they would if they had lost a loved one. This is especially true of the solid, stable employee who has worked in one place for many years. "That person has a mental contract," says Maury Elvekrog, a management psychologist in Birmingham, Mich. "Even though no one told him that he would be taken care of, that's what he expected...
Applying it to the Crimson's loss, Roby added, "It takes some mental toughness. It takes a belief in things that are going to be successful. We have to establish a belief in doing things the right way because we believe that they'll work, because we believe that's the way to play. For a majority of the game tonight, it looked as if we didn't believe the things that we had been taught and worked on in preseason were really going to make the difference...
...painting by the contemporary artist Francis Bacon, she explains, because they were "history-blocked" somewhere before the 20th century. The host, a Roman Catholic, makes a persuasive case against marriage and, in the event marriage has already taken place, for automatic annulment: love creates such a state of mental imbalance, he argues, that the vows are "like confessions obtained under torture...
...research suggests that men exposed to substances such as lead, alcohol and some anticancer medications, as well as nuclear radiation and dioxin-containing herbicides, could be conceiving children with serious physical and mental abnormalities. Although the reports do not prove that such damage is occurring, the increasing number of studies reflects a concern about the issue that some experts feel is long overdue. Says Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, a toxicologist at the University of Maryland: "There has been a sense ((among scientists studying birth defects)) that reproduction is something that women do, and that men don't contribute very much. That...
...study the feasibility of breaking away from New York City. Staten Island's 400,000 residents are irate over the political powerlessness of their borough, which, they claim, receives a smaller portion of municipal services than the city's four other boroughs and more than its fair share of mental institutions, prisons and landfills...