Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another. From outside, in the failing light: "Ecce agnus Dei. Ecce qui tollit peccata mundi " ("Behold the Lamb of God. Behold Him who takes away the sins of the world.") Of course, it all works, said the laibon, irritated that the doubting question was asked. If there are sick cattle, sacrifice a sheep, and take the undigested grass found in its stomach, and stretch the skin over the & entrance to the boma. The cattle will pass beneath the skin and grass, which will draw the illness out of the cows...
...feeding may present a different issue, one with which experts on ethics, especially Catholics, are currently struggling. Is a surgically implanted nourishment tube similar to optional forms of medical technology, or is it more akin to the simple providing of food and water for the sick, which is a moral requirement for everyone? The New Jersey bishops' brief in the Jobes case insists that medical treatments are wholly different from food and fluids, which "are basic to human life." Nutrition, say the bishops, "must always be provided to a patient." But as the CHA experts saw it, neither the Vatican...
...California's San Joaquin Valley, which is rich in agriculture. You're working 10-12 hours a day, picking grapes and tree fruit in temperatures that rise above 100 degrees for weeks at a time. You're making minimum wage and workers' benefits like medical insurance and sick-leave are unheard...
...without financial protection. At the same time we are told there is a surplus of physicians and hospital beds, millions of Americans lack assess to health care. Just as we have people going hungry in a land that could grow more food, so we have people who get sick unable to enter a system that could help them. We are far, and getting further, from equity of access...
...consumer choice and weeds out the less efficient. It is no wonder that Americans prize competition. But these benefits also involve costs: for example, potential declines in quality and segmentation of the insurance market and delivery system as subscribers try to disassociate themselves from those more likely to be sick...