Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pyle said, 'It's awful.' He looked at the wet on his shoes and said in a sick voice, 'What's that...
...from stuffy heads and watery eyes to nosebleeds, headaches and that just-plain-lousy feeling. Doctors and employers have long tended to dismiss such distress as hypochondria, but no longer. Increasingly, the grousing is considered to signal a real problem: indoor air pollution, or, as it is widely known, sick-building syndrome. Says Eileen Claussen, an official of the Environmental Protection Agency: "Pollutants in the indoor environment can cause a serious health risk...
...Washington headquarters, charging that the air inside was so contaminated that it caused burning eyes, fatigue, dizziness, and even made breathing difficult. Despite bright, well-scrubbed appearances, many of today's workplaces are aswirl with noxious pollutants. An estimated one-fifth to one-third of U.S. buildings are considered "sick": they contain areas in which more than 20% of employees suffer acute discomfort that is often eased when they leave the premises. "SBS sneaks up on you," says Research Scientist Michael McCawley of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Predicts McCawley: "Office air quality will...
...from legalization without solving most of those that arise from the current tough drug laws. Author Claude Brown (Manchild in the Promised Land), himself a reformed drug dealer, suggests decriminalizing the sale of drugs by hospitals and clinics in order to "deglamorize ((narcotics use)) and associate it with being sick. That would turn the kids...
...Louis Pasteur, a French microbiologist, concocted a vaccine against chicken cholera after discovering that weakened cholera organisms, while incapable of making chickens sick, would immunize them against the malady. Pasteur, who is credited with founding the science of immunology, went on to create a human rabies vaccine from the brains of rabies-infected sheep and rabbits...