Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a prototype. In college he took the pose of dilettantism to extremes, reacting to parental strictness (his father fined him a penny for each slang word he uttered) by rarely showing up for classes. When law exams loomed, he persuaded a friendly doctor to say he was too ill to face them and should be sent off on vacation. In both Edinburgh and London he prowled the seedier neighborhoods late at night, sometimes dressed as a gentleman, sometimes as a ruffian, noting the differences in how he was treated. He appears to have had at least one serious affair...
...partner, Cher. But underneath the comic exaggeration was a serious message. The noises coming from Bono and many of his fellow Republican signers of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" signal a radical shift in Congress's attitude toward environmental issues-a shift that may bode ill for the health of snail darters, spotted owls and even the human species...
...sure that the hospital really believesthat the environment is perfectly safe," Karsnersaid. "They have seen many of their employeesbecome ill. They have hired outside consultants todetermine why this...
...managers be the managers, but the managers couldn't manage," said Gary Garner, who is on strike against Caterpillar Tractors in Decatur, Ill. "The strike is destroying Decatur, Illinois. They're closing business; they're closing schools; people indirectly are losing their jobs...
Royal Plankenhorn, a member of the United Paperworkers International Union, described a strike against the A.E. Staley Company, which operates a corn processing plant in Decatur, Ill...