Word: sicked
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Complaining that airline traffic was up sharply while the number of controllers was not, some 450 of them protested in June 1969 by staying home for two days, claiming to be sick. The FAA declared that PATCO had encouraged the sickout and that it would no longer recognize the union. For three weeks in the spring of 1970, some 3,000 controllers claimed illness and stayed off the job. "We had no equipment?it was dangerous, dangerous," recalls Carl Vaughn, 45, a Pittsburgh controller. "Little or no automation had been introduced, and near misses were a common occurrence...
Even if the economic disruption in the U.S. has not been as great as expected, experience abroad shows what strikes, sick-outs and slowdowns by air-traffic controllers can eventually do to business. In Italy, sudden and unannounced work stoppages this summer have scrambled schedules at Fiumicino Airport and elsewhere, scaring away travelers and crimping that country's $7 billion tourist trade. Britain has had on-again off-again air-traffic control service for months...
...slim book dates from some specific incident. Surely some 17th century professor was kept awake by a drum; when he introduced the idea of a percussion ban at the next Faculty meeting, his sensible brethren broadened it to include other "harsh instruments." And in 1969, when students finally got sick enough of the Establishment/liberal hypocrisy that allowed ROTC to stay on campus training bomber pilots, they took over the main administration building. Not only did Harvard officials roust them in a bloody pre-dawn bust, the also battled each other to see who could mouth the most pomposities about "academic...
Foremost among them is a sick economy, currently groaning under a $27 billion foreign debt and a projected drop of 15% in national income for 1981. Wages have risen 20% in the past year, but there are far less consumer goods to buy. Meat, butter, sugar and cereals have been rationed for months, and still the queues grow longer. In Silesia, some miners reportedly have fainted because of malnutrition, and doctors report more ailments linked to poor diets...
...happen. The small concessions that have already been made have assuaged much white guilt, though they've assuaged little Black misery. The neo-conservative reaction is fashionable; all manner of educated people parrot the idea that affirmative action equals reverse discrimination. All manner of educated people say "I'm sick of their act," as if Black anger, and the demands for its redress, are simply a tactic. And since, with some justification, that anger is undifferentiated, it often alienates the whites most likely to start some change, most likely to change themselves...