Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Researchers reported the first direct link between MAD-COW DISEASE and a fatal brain ailment in people. Sick animals and human victims had the same biochemical patterns in their brains, further supporting the contention that eating tainted meat causes the human illness...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Americans have been frightened by the Contract with America because...it fails to honor important existing obligations. It threatens our elderly, our children and our sick...
Slayton wants government to help improve education, take care of the sick and elderly and protect reproductive rights. But tobacco has been the burning issue in this race: Slayton wants to hike the price of a pack of cigarettes 25%, using $4 of every $5 raised to offset the medical cost of tobacco-related diseases and the rest to fund anti-smoking education for kids. Philip Morris isn't located here, but many of its employees...
...Custodial Workers Union approved a contract "which many employees said they had not seen in its entirety." The new contract slashes many of the hard earned benefits that workers have fought for over the years. Employees will receive no raises (until negotiations resume in July of 1998), employee sick days are reduced from 15 to 10, even employee vacation time is reduced. In exchange, the contract offers some insignificant part-time concessions...
Musically speaking, Plumtree is always shifting, adapting their techniques to produce new flavors and textures. In the new album's opening song, "Tropical," Carla Gillis (lead guitarist and singer) declares, "I'm sick of your morals, I'm sick of them, My mother told me what to do today!" Yet behind this repetition, two guitarists piece together a surf-rock riff, while the bass (Amanda Braden) roots the song's fervent movement with hard-driving chords. In "The Phone, the Phone," sisters Lynette and Carla blend two different vocal styles and come up with a wonderfully complementary sound. One sister...