Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...giving new money for new babies just sends the wrong moral message and should be stopped on those grounds alone." Laracy is focused on the kids and argues just the opposite: "Cut off from benefits, they'll be worse off, with a greater chance to be abused, to be ill fed and to do poorly in life...
Grand Canyon National Park, the crown jewel of America's park system, is being overrun. And like many other underfunded and deteriorating national parks, it is ill prepared for the invasion. Summer has barely begun, and cars and campers are already queuing up in lines nearly a mile long at the entrance gates. The wait for dinner tables at park restaurants is two hours, and families without advance reservations are being turned away from campgrounds that have been booked for weeks...
...NOTION THAT MUSIC AND CINEMA are responsible for the meltdown of U.S. society is utter nonsense; moreover, this red herring is perpetuated by venal politicians to pre-empt any serious examination of sensitive issues. America is ailing and in denial. Chief among the many ills exacerbating our sick spirit is bogus puritanism. Ill-minded men wed to this pernicious folly inhibit us from ordaining reasonable policies regarding sex, drugs, violent crime, taxes, the military and foreign policy. Tully Atkinson San Clemente, California...
...couple of the councillors have been ill, andone of them is just recovering from back surgery,"Fried said
...members overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to protect the American flag from burning and other forms of desecration. "As tombstones are not for toppling, as churches and synagogues and places of worship are not for vandalizing, flags are not for burning," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) The 312-120 vote -- which included support from 219 Republicans and 93 Democrats -- easily surpassed the two-thirds majority needed to alter the Constitution. TIME's Laurence Barrett says the bill has a "very good chance" of clearing the required 38 state legislatures, "not because many elected officials enthusiastically support...