Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are too many moments in My Best Friend's Wedding when her ferocity reads as near motiveless malignity, especially as it is largely directed at Cameron Diaz's Kimmy, the bride-to-be. She's pert and pretty, smart and spunky--not at all someone we wish ill. When our sympathies shift to her, the movie sours. It is no help either that Ronald Bass neglected to write (or Mulroney was unable to find) a character in Michael. Why all this fuss over this lox, we keep wondering. Director P.J. Hogan (Muriel's Wedding) stages a couple of marvelously...
Still, the FDA was not entirely satisfied, and as a condition of approval it required that Wyeth-Ayerst conduct a follow-up study to determine whether Redux users were suffering any ill effects from the drug. Wyeth-Ayerst's critics say the company has been dragging its feet. Wyeth-Ayerst, for its part, says it is pleased with Redux's sales and is ready to start the tests, but that the FDA still has not decided how the study should be designed...
...press can, with time and a big enough marketing budget, be surmounted. Failing to deliver is another matter. "It just doesn't seem to work that well," says Dr. Richard Joseph, an obesity expert in Naperville, Ill. "I consider only a few of my patients Redux success stories...
...told Army investigators of an affair Longhouser had had five years ago. Army Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis was relieved of the command of all Army medical operations in the Southeast region two weeks ago because of an apparent "improper relationship" with a civilian nurse who was caring for his ill wife. And last week Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney, the top enlisted soldier in the Army, offered to resign to avoid facing prosecution for sexually harassing female colleagues. What looked like equal time to some feminists was regarded as a witch-hunt by old-timers...
...really true that the U.S. is enjoying its best economic health in 25 years [NATION, May 19]? Why are our Federal and state governments implementing punitive measures on our poor, vulnerable and ill citizens? Why must we be concerned that what we are taking away from elderly and disabled legal immigrants may cause homelessness and starvation? And why is Congress considering cutting the taxes of the rich at the expense of the middle class? If these were really peak times, generosity would at least be at average levels. WILLIAM M. STEIN Arlington, Mass...