Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, there is much to be done. Despite legislation and countless studies showing the ill effects of tobacco on smokers and on those with whom they live, people continue to smoke. I will not now revert to your mother and rattle off the terrible things smoking does to your body. I am sure the smokers in the readership would tell me the problem is not ignorance; it's denial. It's just that smoking seems to ease out the wrinkles of the Harvard day and keeps things focused at the high-strung level of Harvard student performance...
...replacement, throwing three interceptions in the first quarter. The Yale defense almost single-handedly won the game for the Elis, by setting up Yale's first touchdown drive with a fumble recovery at the San Diego 19 and by completely shutting down the Torero offense. Blake, who blocked the ill-fated extra point in the Brown game, managed to block a field goal and a punt for the Elis...
...even that close, as the Eli took a 34-0 lead into halftime, and then coasted for the victory. Led by running back Rashad Bartholomew, who rushed for 107 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries, the Yale offense was unstoppable in the first half. Walland showed no ill effects of his shoulder injury, throwing for 139 yards before being relieved at halftime...
...Tuesday, with AFL-CIO president John Sweeney calling it a "grave mistake" and Teamsters leader James P. Hoffa denouncing it as a "slap in the face" to American and Chinese workers. Labor's hostility to the pact that all but ensures China's entry to the WTO may bode ill for Gore, who has assiduously courted labor's support since his free-trade advocacy put him on a collision course with the unions over the 1994 NAFTA agreement...
...fact, the three-to-five-day lag time between the group's arrival and the time it is issued BTUs (Basic Training Uniforms) creates something of a hierarchy around the Reception Battalion.? Newbies start in civilian hair, civilian shoes and those ill-fitting sweats; as one more-veteran private put it to us, "Everybody loves the new guy."? (Love supposedly equals yelling and push-ups.)? Over the past few days we have shed the shoes, the hair, the wide-eyed look; now we want the camouflage, both literally and figuratively...