Word: ills
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...also be the answer to the decades-old concern that American students are being ill-prepared by their educational system to compete with their counterparts overseas. A federal commission fueled such fears when it reported in May that American students spend less than half the time studying the core subjects of math, reading, history and science that students in such countries as Germany, France and Japan do. Education critics have long called for extending the U.S. school year from its current 180 days to something closer to Japan's 240 days...
...humanitarian officials fear that their plan to have refugees return from border camps in Zaire could spread disease throughout Rwanda. The rescue effort itself is drawing controversy: physicians are criticizing the U.N. World Food Program for transporting choleric refugees back to Rwanda's capital, Kigali. In one wave, 16 ill people apparently infected 700 others...
Lang is not complicated or twisted and has no ill intent. Neither does the change that much during the course of the film. But he is enjoyable to watch. He is enjoyable to watch. he is what we wish everyone could really be like...
...first crisis for Bill Clinton's Secretary of Agriculture came on the day of his swearing in, Jan. 22, 1993. A child died after eating government- inspected meat at a Seattle-area Jack in the Box restaurant. Two more died and hundreds of other Westerners fell ill from the contaminated food; some of them developed a life-threatening kidney syndrome. The new President, in office for only two days, expressed his shock. The Agriculture Secretary, Mike Espy, ordered an investigation to trace the outbreak's cause, a mystery never conclusively solved. In the midst of that emergency, Espy found time...
...American presence, according to Leon Edney, the retired Navy admiral who, as commander of all U.S. Atlantic forces, was responsible for Haiti when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown nearly three years ago. Haiti's military "hardly warrants the name," a Pentagon planner says; its 7,500 troops are ill-trained and poorly equipped, and they are expected to offer little overt resistance. In all likelihood U.S. forces would quickly take control of the handful of Haitian armored vehicles, planes, boats and guns. "The Haitians will be lucky to get 1,000 or 1,500 troops to respond," predicts Georges...