Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kept denying to myself I was really really sick," said Brudnoy of his experience with HIV. "Finally, I collapsed...I was at death's door. The doctors said that I had 20 minutes to live...
Perhaps the people at the MTA have a sick sense of humor, but they're probably just incompetent and out of touch. After all, MTA executives don't have to ride the subway--chauffeured cars transport them to work and back. Thus, MTA fails to institute simpler and more cost effective ways of improving the subways, like adding more trains during rush hour, fixing broken air conditioning systems and keeping stations and trains cleaner...
...goodness on one's own, without the comfort of consensus or the smugness of solidarity. This is the hardest thing for a human being to achieve, but also the most brilliant achievement. The liberal education is harder than an education in any particular task, whether making money, curing the sick, helping the underprivileged, entertaining the bored, advancing science, winning arguments, reporting the news, deconstructing texts, grinding out punditry or decrying oppression. The liberal education goes beyond making one good at something or for something. It makes one good and wise without qualification. It aims to produce the whole human being...
...until they suddenly expired. Last month the same officials indignantly denied a TIME report that Yeltsin might go abroad for surgery. Yeltsin's announcement was at best a victory for semi-glasnost. He gave the impression that his heart problems had just been discovered. But he has been a sick man for years, and his need for heart surgery has been apparent to foreign specialists for months. He did not say exactly what the operation would be, though a prominent Russian heart surgeon later told the Interfax news agency the President would have a bypass. Yeltsin aides said...
Citing the centrist orientation of the candidates, some feel the race is a testing ground for candidates playing to voters sick of the Christian Right and the radical left...