Word: sicking
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Jobs that stay put are becoming a lot harder to find these days. U.S. companies are expected to send 3.3 million jobs overseas in the next 12 years, primarily to India, according to a study by Forrester Research. If you've ever called Dell about a sick PC or American Express about an error on your bill, you have already bumped the tip of this "offshore outsourcing" iceberg. The friendly voice that answered your questions was probably a customer-service rep in Bangalore or New Delhi. Those relatively low-skilled jobs were the first to go, starting...
...consists of work about the U.S. by artists from 30 nations, almost all of it made after the fall of the Berlin Wall and much of it since 9/11. Though it includes a few pieces that treat the U.S. fondly, the show is produced largely by artists who are sick of America's rawboned incursions on the world stage, its imperial hauteur, its global misalliances. Some of them don't even like our T shirts...
Copyrighted. The name of Mother Teresa, the nun and Nobel laureate who died in 1997 after a life of caring for the poor and the sick; by the order of nuns she founded, the Missionaries of Charity; in Calcutta. The nuns said they sought the rights to Mother Teresa's name, the name of their order and its rosary-encircled globe logo to prevent them from being exploited by commercial interests...
Indeed, they never did. Should the surgeons have attempted such a risky procedure on patients who were not dying, and, in fact, were not even sick...
...patient wants it, and he knows the risks--why not give him what he wants? No. The doctor is there to help save a suffering soul from the ravages of a failing body. He is not there to ravage a healthy body in the service of a sick and self-destructive soul...