Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appear to lift the spirits of the Palestinian leader. At the White House press conference his expression was glazed, his skin gray and drawn. He canceled a press conference of his own, and at a dinner at the Egyptian embassy, Arafat behaved even more dispiritedly. "He looked sick and incapable of focusing," said a guest at the meal. "His entourage was in the same state; they all seemed unable to absorb the enormity of the situation they found themselves in." While guests at the dinner tried to discuss the coming talks, Arafat and his followers only wanted to discuss money...
Your glowing article on William Bennett topped with the halo on his head [NATION, Sept. 16] made me sick. "Life is good" for the millionaire, who is nothing more than a blowhard preacher without the credentials. Who is this rich, anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-corporal- and capital-punishment zealot to tell people who struggle every day to get by about "'moral poverty' born of negligent parenting, welfare dependency and too easy divorce"? I am sick of the crop of rich Republicans who hypocritically sermonize about the decline in "family values," when their values translated into actions destroy the families...
...other singers sick of the exhaustive try-out process often start their own groups...
...contract provides few advantages for the members of Local 254. It freezes wages for the first 20 months of its duration. It also cuts vacation time and slashes sick pay. The new pact does offer employees a short-term disability plan, and upgrades benefits for part-time employees. But while current union members will not see their pay decrease, new employees will be hired at significantly lower wages. New full-time custodians and supply room employees will only earn $8.57 per hour...
...because bleaching--the coral equivalent of running a fever--can be fatal. In 1983 a particularly severe bleaching episode killed 95% of the corals off the Galapagos Islands. Global warming could also trigger more intense hurricanes, scientists fear. And while healthy reefs would no doubt recuperate from the pummeling, sick reefs might not. "What we worry about," says Smithsonian marine biologist Nancy Knowlton, "is a threshold effect, when so much stress piles up that all of a sudden the floor falls through...