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Word: illing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turner admitted that secrecy can lead to the abuse of ill-defined powers, but said that the CIA is more open and accountable today than any other intelligence agency in history...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Turner Defends CIA's Secrecy Needs | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

Although Bate acknowledged it would be difficult for Engell to live up to some students' expectations, he considers Engell an "excellent lecturer" with a "fine knowledge of the course." Engell also taught several lectures at the beginning of the term when Bate was ill...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker and Lino D. Tontodonato, S | Title: W. J. Bate Suffers Stroke; Engell to Give English 140b | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...many as 100 times by the "Board of Education," a thick plank, and a microphone was placed near the mouths of victims to amplify screams for the congregation. Jones, who said he could raise the dead, also staged healing rites in which he claimed to pull cancerous organs from ill people; what he had in his hands, in fact, were chicken innards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cult Massacre | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...learn to size up the female by age, education and possible ferocity of feminism before opening a door for her: Would the courtesy offend her? It made for ambiguity: If a man studiously refuses to open the door for a woman, is he sexually liberated? Or just an ill-bred slob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...notion that individuals have a right to expect certain services from government. In America, to depend too much on government is seen as a weakness and an inhibitor of freedom. At the simplest level, the logical development of this attitude ensures the freedom to starve or to die of ill-health, through inability to pay the doctor's bills. There is certainly a relationship between the values of a society and the form of its healthcare delivery system. Perhaps Europeans have less cultural and ideological inhibitions in allocating certain tasks to the state. As a result of this, the programs...

Author: By Suzanne Franks, | Title: The British Plan for Health | 11/22/1978 | See Source »

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