Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decline in the sick-out rate is probably a coalescence of the new two-course requirement and the footnote policy," Dean Fox said. "There's always a fair amount of talk about sicking out but nobody advocates taking a make-up exam," he added. "No matter how crummy your feeling, it's better to get it over with," he said...
Federalism, in its essence, depends on rational compromise. It requires the central government's willingness to exist eo-evally with regional autonomous bodies of government. On the surface, Reagan's "equal swap"--we'll take care of your sick if you'll take care of your poor, as William Safire put it yesterday in The New York Times--seems to embody that compromise. But note Safire's use of the second person. Indeed, "all's right-wing with the world," as he wrote; Reagan and his cohorts refuse to acknowledge that perhaps, just perhaps, the poor is not "your poor...
...Pope insisted on sitting in, calling himself "a party to the problem," not "a simple object of discussion." Eight of the doctors voted against the surgery: the Pope was still too sick to risk an operation. The ninth doctor thought the reverse. John Paul went with No. 9 and ordered surgery. According to a Roman physician familiar with the discussions, the Pontiff explained, "I don't want to continue half dead and half alive." The operation was performed successfully on Aug. 5, John Paul left the hospital nine days later, and has gradually resumed his activist pontificate...
...Detroit's plight only varies in kind from that of other ailing Northern cities. In Akron, the sick industry is tires; in Gary and Baltimore, steel; and everywhere, construction. This depression in heavy industry has triggered a spectacular rise in the unemployment rate from 7 per cent in July to 8.9 per cent in December. Unemployment in basic durable goods manufacturing as a whole stands at 11.8 per cent; in the automotive industry, at 21.7 per cent. So it should come as no surprise that two heavily industrialized states now boast unemployment figures in the Great Depression neighborhood: Michigan...
...atmosphere of the jobless world is less familiar only because it is ordinarily more private, often downright obscure. The most obvious personal wounds of joblessness are often easy to spot, as in the language of Ronald Poindexter, 34, a Washington bricklayer out of work for six months: "I feel sick." But the profound wrench of unemployment is not often disclosed as plainly as in the reflection of Connie Cerrito, 52, of New York City, who last July lost the cosmetics factory position she had held for 35 years. Says Cerrito: "My job was my whole life. That...