Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cause. They not only raise money but also walk the walk of deeply interested parties. If they sponsor environmental awareness, you can be sure they also recycle. McDonald's, for example, has a clear interest in kids and local communities. Its Ronald McDonald House for the families of seriously ill children is one of the country's best-known charitable...
...never do find out what exactly happened to Charlie and Myra, and it doesn't matter. What does matter is the effect their unseen presence (or absence) has on a group of affluent, complacent New York professionals. Having made it big doesn't conceal the fact that they're ill-equipped and totally unprepared for dealing with a crisis of this kind. Throw in a case of whiplash, back spasms, temporary deafness and all manner of quirks and mishaps, and you've got manifold ways of making them look even more foolish...
...unfortunate that the house masters do not recognize that the potential benefits of all-house access far outweigh any disadvantages we may incur therefrom. Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 should encourage the house masters to reconsider their ill-considered "no," and try to push through all-house key card access by the end of the semester...
Such a season of blame is taking its toll on an agency ill equipped to handle it. The 25,000 or so employees who wrestle with heavy caseloads, bad technology, long hours and growing threats to their safety, who find purpose in the bureau motto of "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity," can handle just about anything--anything but walking down the street and having a pal from the local police department slide up in his cruiser and ask mocking questions about all the cases the FBI has screwed up and all the headlines it's made and "Hey, what's the deal...
...field of medicine is the controversy more intense than in the treatment of children. Dr. Kathleen Foley, head of the pain service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City, remembers an adolescent who was terminally ill. "The father didn't want his son on morphine because he was afraid the boy would become an addict," Foley recalls. In his grief over the imminent loss of his son, it seems, the father failed to see the absurdity of worrying about long-term addiction in a child who is dying in pain...