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Word: sicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began organizing in 1974, the average salary for a Harvard secretary stood at slightly more than $400 a week. Now the focus has shifted, with District 65 emphasizing fringe benefits and the democratic advantages of unionization. District 65's own periodical pamphlet, The Working Solution, lists tuition assistance and sick pay before wages in its September 30 issue. The passage entitled "Money" states, "We all expect a raise every July," adding that the only times Harvard has granted wage increases besides July 1 came when the threat of the union was heating up, in 1974 and 1979. Among the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Division of Labor | 11/11/1981 | See Source »

...cultured dialect of the uptown Manhattan brownstone. It seems the entire dramatis personae of the New York Psychoanalytic Society must speak roughly the same way. Nonetheless, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession is fascinating. But the powerful ideas of psychoanalysis and the murkiness they dredge out of all our sick psyches somehow require a more patient, vigorous prose...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: The Father of Us All | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

...order to pay back the money or she may be able to take out an additional loan, provided that her home has continued to increase in value. Says Boe happily: "I urgently needed the money. It's my home, and I love it. I'd have been sick if I had to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Property Rich, Cash Poor | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...lawyer in his home-town of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Hoffman described the disastrous first Olympic heat, "In my four years at Harvard, never had any equipment broken or had anyone gotten sick during a race. Now our stroke almost collapsed, two riggers broke half-way through and we finished third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Olympic Eight | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

...companion can be found. It's about a French town that opens the doors of its insane asylum just before the Nazis arrive. Cheaper than the MX and more effective. This is one of those cult movies that people go to see 37 times before they scream "I'm sick of this shit" and run out of the theater. My theory is that every fifth frame of a cult movie shows an authority figure saying "See this movie repeatedly." I use a similar tactic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Streep Street | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

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