Word: illing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's decision to move from push to shove in the Middle East could easily have been different: a violent shouting match with the parties involved that would dash the prospects for negotiations and saddle the Administration with a highly visible foreign policy failure that it can ill afford...
...brought up by van [750 miles from the prison in Port Elizabeth to Pretoria]. He got into the van himself and was made comfortable. He was ill at various stages, but that was after [we had requested] medical advice as to whether he could travel and they said he could. [In Pretoria], he was put in a prison cell because that was the warrant and they immediately tried to get hold of a doctor. But the soonest they could reach him was early afternoon, so Biko was left [in prison] and treated there; that evening he died. I have never...
Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed, which have long considered the U.S. plane market their own, have reacted to this new European threat by bad-mouthing the Airbus as ill suited to the needs of U.S. airlines. Despite its size, the Airbus is basically a medium-range jet, and American planemakers contend that there are no routes in the U.S. where traffic would be heavy enough to fill a profitable percentage of its seats consistently. Eastern seems willing to take the gamble, however, and U.S. planemakers are apparently afraid that other European jets may eventually follow the Airbus into the American...
...manner in which the upgrading was handled displays a painful double standard of justice for those who resisted during the war in Vietnam. Draft evaders, who were generally white, middle-class, and college-educated, received a blanket pardon. Deserters, however, who were largely black, poor, or ill-educated, were given the burden of applying to have their discharges upgraded to erase the official stigma. Those who were aware of the program, who were not afraid of battling the bureaucracy once more, and who were eligible for the program, were given upgraded discharges. But the process should have been much simpler...
Until recently in America, old people did not have much trouble living up to that philosophy. Work and age had not been severed. In colonial times, elderly people were fewer, but they held the best jobs. Nor did they budge from their posts until death or ill health forced them out. In 17th century New England, 90% of the ministers and magistrates died in office. People showed their respect for age?and power ?by attempting to look older than they were. They powdered their hair and wore the severely cut clothing of the aged...