Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that I harbor any ill feelings toward Wall Street's deal machine. To the contrary, I believe in the benefits of cost cutting, carving up and combining companies, and generally placing efficiency and profitability above all else. That's raw capitalism, which keeps U.S. companies fit to win against global competitors and ensures jobs and an improving standard of living for most people. It has its losers, though, and can seem unnecessary when the economy is humming as it is today. But at least now this meal, distasteful to many, is being served in the cook's kitchen...
...incoming asteroid is composed largely of iron, a nearby or even a surface explosion would present no problem. But if the asteroid is rocky, a blast, particularly an ill-planned one, might well shatter it into chunks, each a potential danger to a terrestrial region or metropolitan area...
Okrent's funeral and burial will take place this morning at 10 a.m. at the Beth Emet Synagogue in his hometown of Evanston, Ill. Okrent's roommates will attend the funeral...
Ihaven't written a tutorial paper that was due last Monday, and I don't want to write it--not because I am a delinquent, not because I am ill, but because I don't feel as though I will be maximizing my education by writing...
...listen, skeptical of their ability to characterize an entire House with a single adjective, none of us really cares. Whether or not the Houses still have a unique character is debatable. But the fact of the matter is that most first-years think they don't. And this bodes ill for the University as a whole...