Word: invalidism
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...lights and the music are back on Broadway. A rash of hit musicals has given the Fabulous Invalid a whole new life. And in passing, the so-called renaissance of the American musical has spurred a genuine rebirth of that endangered species, the original cast album...
...other ruling involves worker safety: in 1989 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration limited workplace exposure to more than 400 toxic substances. But OSHA didn't make a separate case for each, as the law requires. Though that would have taken decades, an Atlanta court said the limits are invalid. Workers shouldn't panic: it's unlikely that companies that have spent millions to comply with osha's standards will now spend even more to have safeguards removed...
...factory where he worked. He slept on the streets and at railway stations, and lived for a while in a tent city that was pitched outside the walls of the Kremlin for six months in 1990. "It's so hard to live these days. I am an invalid, and I have almost no means of survival," says Pronin, whose hollow-cheeked face and legs twisted by an accident he refuses to discuss make him look far older than his 47 years. "I used to be an artist and earned quite a bit, but I became sick. Under the communists...
Certainly the Mexicans -- and many other Latin Americans -- were upset. Calling the ruling "invalid and unacceptable," Mexico threatened to suspend antidrug cooperation with the U.S. -- a threat rescinded after Washington offered assurances that its sovereignty would be respected in the future. But the diplomatic dust had hardly settled when Mexican officials charged that on June 13 agents from the U.S. crossed the border, seized Teodulo Romo Lopez and returned him to Tucson to face bail-jumping and cocaine-trafficking charges. The Salinas government quickly protested...
Hally's parents, whom we never meet, own the tea room. His mother calls Hally from the hospital, where she visits his invalid, alcoholic, racist father...