Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western Europe, the jobless rate will decline from its current 12.1% to 10.3% by the end of 1987. But no improvement at all is seen for the 13.3% unemployment rate in Britain, which Hans Mast, a senior economic adviser to the Credit Suisse First Boston investment bank, called the "sick man of Europe." In the U.S., unemployment will rise slightly, from 7% to 7.3%, by year's end and remain unchanged for 1987. Across the Pacific rim, jobless rates will remain relatively low next year, except in Australia (7.8%) and the Philippines...
...practice, which is made available by a host of new commercial blood banks, might threaten the supply of blood available to the general public. This concerns the American Red Cross. "The present system provides the opportunity for individuals who are healthy to provide blood for individuals who are sick," says Red Cross Vice President Gerald Sandler. If too many people reserve blood for their own use, he warns, "we will have fragmented an American institution that has been very beneficial...
...THAT YOU'RE sick of the Statue of Liberty, here are a few parting thoughts straight from a ship in New York Harbor on the Fourth of July...
Balloons inserted into the heart can be used to treat diseased valves that cause congestive heart failure in people who are too old or sick to undergo surgery, Harvard researchers announced yesterday...
Like James Bond, Ferris (Matthew Broderick), who pretends to be sick from high school in order to go escapading with friends in Chicago, uses devilish charm, outlandish technology and incredibly good luck, to escape being caught by a school administrator. Like Woody Allen, Ferris soliloquizes into the camera...