Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flaying of celebrities like Gifford and Jordan made it easy to miss the point. For years children have been sold as slaves, blinded or maimed for crying or rebelling or trying to return home, ill-fed, bone-weary, short-lived. They file the scissor blades, mix the gunpowder for the firecrackers, knot the carpets, stitch the soccer balls with needles longer than their fingers. Human-rights groups guess there may be 200 million children around the world, from China to South America, working full time--no play, no school, no chance. All of which raises the question, once the news...
...different. They have no discernible beginning; no one wakes up of a morning, looks out a window and says, "Uh-oh, here comes a long dry spell." Droughts seem deceptively serene, no more threatening than an endless expanse of blue, cloudless sky. They unfold in slow motion, a tempo ill suited to daily headlines and TV-news reports. Covering one is like sitting around watching the grass not grow. In The Grapes of Wrath, his 1939 novel about the Depression-era Dust Bowl, John Steinbeck captured the idling, hallucinatory rhythm of drought: "The brown lines on the corn leaves widened...
Robert M. Shrireman, legislative director for Sen. Paul M. Simon (D-Ill.), said those efforts were largely responsible for staving off the cuts...
...answer, of course, is that those men who did serve in combat in Vietnam must care about it and must consider it an affront, not only to their service but to the sacrifices made in an ill-conceived war by the 57,600 Americans who died in it and the hundreds of thousands more who left arms and legs and sometimes pieces of their sanity in Vietnam. It is self-evident that no one who had not earned the decorations for valor in battle should have worn them, least of all the Navy's top officer...
Starting last fall, however, Murdoch's interest in news suddenly revived. In November he announced plans to start a 24-hour news channel; shortly thereafter two network rivals, ABC and NBC, did the same. Fox seemed especially ill equipped to pull off such an ambitious venture, given that unlike its competitors, it has no news infrastructure to build on. Fox also faces daunting problems getting space on the crowded cable dial. (NBC will put its new network, which debuts in July, on a channel it already owns, America's Talking; ABC hopes to package its service, promised for late this...