Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sport has succumbed to greed and gluttony. Promoters are as well known as the boxers they represent. Boxing has become a sick side-show. Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, whose out-of-ring problems have earned more press than his in-ring triumphs, is a pitiful heir to the throne Muhammed Ali sat in for so long...
...Everyone I talk to has the same feeling, that there is something sick about a society where you can get filthy rich by doing this sort of deal," said MIT's 1987 Economics Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow in the same article. "It is an activity about as far from Florence Nightingale as you can get, and that is what underlies the discomfort people feel...
...remember when the Dead Sea was only sick," cracked the ebullient director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. Leon Lederman, 66, had a premonition that there would be good news from Stockholm this year. "This is the year for the geriatric Nobel Prize," he said -- and he was right. Lederman, along with former Columbia University colleagues Melvin Schwartz, 55, now the head of his own computer firm in California, and Jack Steinberger, 67, a research physicist in Geneva, Switzerland, won the award for their groundbreaking contributions to particle physics. In 1962 the three developed techniques to capture neutrinos...
BIZET: SYMPHONY IN C MAJOR; "L'ARLESIENNE" SUITE (Erato). Grace, style, panache and a certain je ne sais quoi: Bizet had it all. Just what the doctor ordered when you're sick of the three German...
After the race, Thompson's world turned further inside-out. Her sister, Harvard freshman Jessica Thompson, who was in Seoul, became extremely sick and needed emergency surgery...