Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lower than those allowed by the Government. One hundred and sixty employees work with nitroglycerin at the plant. Though only .6% of such an adult group would normally show signs of coronary heart disease, Lange found 5% of the employees to be suffering from some kind of heart handicap...
Murphy had no qualms about his lack of acting ability. "I'm working he with a handicap," he told one director. "I have no talent." He was also quick to admit that he was in acting simply for the money. He did make money - some $2.5 million from 40 pictures - but part of it he gave away and the rest he lost in poor investments. For the past several years he was hounded by creditors. When he died, he was on a business trip trying to close one last deal to stave off bankruptcy...
...series of J-5 animated cartoons all have to be worked around school and homework. The Buckley School (in Sherman Oaks, where all five of them go) makes allowances, and a social worker-tutor travels with the boys wherever they go, but show biz is still a schooling handicap. But then again, the boys, who; get only a small allowance each week, aren't subject to the pressures of traveling grown-ups -you know, wasting time with those worthless chickies on the road, migraine headaches, creaking bones, drugs and alcohol-instead, they unwind nightly with pillow fights and card...
...Severe Handicap. Partly as a result of this campaign, French is now the main language of a record 180 million people, far more than the 100 million that most U.N. agencies reckon as the minimum for a bona fide "working language." And while the British Commonwealth recedes, ties between France and other French-speaking areas-including the former colonies, particularly in Africa, and also Quebec-continue to grow stronger...
WALTER WRISTON: Twenty years ago, it was appropriate for the U.S. to enter a race with a weight on its back as a handicap. Our productive capacity was such that we did not have to worry too much. Now we are aware of the fact that other countries have not honored their commercial treaties. We are aware of the discrimination of the Common Market against American exports in some 23 cases...