Word: illing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush even tried to take credit for legislation he worked to repeal. To address the problems of the homeless, Bush suggested creating federally funded clinics to ease deinstitutionalization for the mentally ill. What Bush didn't mention was that a bill had already been passed to do exactly that; the Mental Health Systems Act was signed into law by President Carter in 1980. Once of Reagan's first executive acts in early 1981 was to insist that it be eliminated from the budget. Bush has no right to call for more clinics for the mentally ill; were...
...radar-invisible Stealth warplanes can hide in the sky, thanks in part to special materials and chemical coatings that do not reflect radar pulses. But these materials make workers ill -- or so claim scores of employees at Lockheed's Burbank, Calif., plant, home of Stealth. In a lawsuit, the workers complain that a panoply of ailments -- rashes, aches and pains, nausea, memory loss -- is being caused by unknown toxic agents in Stealth materials. Lockheed vice president John Brizendine insists that "we have seen nothing to indicate the materials we work with . . . pose a health hazard, providing proper procedures are followed...
...networks' financial woes are increasingly being reflected on the home screen, for good and ill. News programming is becoming more popular with network executives because it costs less to produce. CBS now has three hours of news in prime time; ABC has one and is planning a second for January. The networks are looking more kindly at other "reality" shows as well. ABC, for instance, has just set up a new subsidiary to produce nature shows and other nonfiction specials, both for the network and for other outlets...
Lateborn children are likely to be more aware of death than many of their peers. Certainly, as young adults, they may find themselves caring for a chronically ill parent. Perhaps because she is the daughter of older parents, King understands her daughter Megan, 9, when she says, "Mommy, I wish you were younger; then you wouldn't die so soon." Still, psychologists think many children are acutely afraid of death when they are very young -- and when their parents are least likely...
...Rights -- often require that even its supporters hold their noses. The A.C.L.U. has made enemies left and right in defense of draft-card burners during the Viet Nam War, Jehovah's Witnesses who choose not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Nazis who wanted to march in Skokie, Ill., and a fair trial for Oliver North. Says William Schneider, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute: "Being linked to the A.C.L.U. is a problem because it takes up unpopular causes. Presidential candidates prefer popular causes...