Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told me if I hadn't taken the picture, someone else would have, but I've felt bad for him and his family for a long time. I had kept in contact with him; the last time we spoke was about six months ago, when he was very ill. I sent flowers when I heard that he had died and wrote, "I'm sorry. There are tears in my eyes...
...nurseries in the U.S. offer massage to these tiniest of patients. Hospital administrators remain skeptical of claims about its therapeutic value, and since most HMOs don't cover baby massage, there's little incentive to start pilot programs. Besides, harried nurses can barely handle the steady stream of critically ill infants with special needs, much less find time to give thrice-daily rubdowns...
Heston may fancy himself an American eagle, but he's really just a hypocritical chicken hawk. LITZI TREVINO HARTLEY Naperville, Ill...
Movie pirates have found a new format in which to load their ill-gotten wares: the video-compact disc, also known as VCD. Popular with Asian counterfeiters for a year or so, the VCD, which resembles the digital videodisc but offers lower-quality images, has begun hitting the U.S., with boots of Deep Impact and Armageddon now available on the black market in Los Angeles. The discs, which can be played on a DVD machine, are going for as much as $200 each...
...fair, the magazine is losing less money than it did a few years ago, and Brown has been ill served by blunders and feuding on the business side. In May she was given only a day's notice when a new publisher was brought in; furthermore, it was announced that the magazine's traditional independence was being curtailed and that it would be formally brought under Conde Nast's control, a move Brown opposed and one that meant she would have to deal directly with the company's bombastic president and CEO, Steve Florio...