Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motivated by revenge or the desire for political aggrandizement. It was a violent act by a man who didn't understand the difference between right and wrong. The American justice system worked. If it continues to function properly, then John Hinckley Jr. will be treated as the sick...
...however, the FDA ordered more than 200 manufacturers and distributors to stop selling the pills, pending further research. The action was prompted by a rash of reports that users have experienced vomiting and diarrhea so severe that hospitalization was necessary in at least five cases. "God, did I get sick," remembers one Chicago woman in her 30s who was doubled over by agonizing intestinal pain that felt like an attack of appendicitis...
...There is wide spread abuse of sick leave by teachers. About 20% of the system's 4,200 teachers took more than the 15 annual sick days provided by the union contract. The president of the teachers' union described the absenteeism problem as "teensy," explaining that continued job stress and budget-based layoffs have demoralized teachers. But on any given day, 55 teachers are absent, and about 1,300 students get little or no instruction. Estimated cost of the absenteeism: $10 million a year...
...foreman, Jackson had often asked those favoring an insanity verdict, "Y'all know, he shot the President. How are we going to deal with that?" By Monday he had dispelled those doubts from his own mind. "Well, he is a little sick," Jackson noted of Hinckley. Copelin and Brown were still holding firm. Argued Brown strenuously: "The issue is not whether he was a little off, or whether this poem or that one didn't make sense. He shot those people, he shot them on purpose, he planned the whole thing out. He should be punished." When...
...Reflecting on such scenes, a Western ambassador in Beirut remarked sadly: "I ask myself what has happened to those Jews who were filled with spirit and light, who gave us hope and inspiration. Have they all gone? I come back from my trips to the south, and I am sick. Sick at heart. Sick to death...