Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning of her chapter on health and emergencies, for example, Hanson writes, "Few things suck more than being sick at college, unless you count Dracula." And a bit later, in the section on athlete's foot: "Like us in so many things, fungi, too, prefer intimate attachments with the buff. But don't rush for the barbells--you too, inactive one, may be blessed by union with some microbes whose biological clocks are telling them to settle down...
While Lugar stares at his hands, the lawyer pitches a tale of innocent patriotism at odds with the cold, brawler's face of his client: how a good-hearted truck driver trying to make ends meet for a wife, two daughters, a sick mother, six cats and two parrots, gave up everything to defend his brother Serbs in Bosnia; how he never did anything but "stand guard" and "carry out ordinary military orders"; how in return for risking his life, he is broke and jobless, his children are shunned and his own government is trying to make him a scapegoat...
...indeed the words of congratulation were portentous. "Welcome to this sin-sick world and the challenge you have to walk in your Daddy's footsteps," wrote one well wisher. "Dear Little Billy Frank Jr. ...We heard...that your Daddy has new help for preaching God's truth...So grow up fast," said another. That was the fate prescribed for the boy born, after a succession of three girls, in Montreat, North Carolina, on July 14, 1952. He was heir presumptive to the world's most famous preacher, Billy Graham, a name already thundering out of the evangelical South, resounding through...
...Family leave. A nice idea; parents should not have to choose between a job and a sick child. But unlike in Europe, where government helps subsidize the cost, here it was simply imposed on employers...
...relocation. More and more mothers work part-time, though they routinely make less an hour than full-time workers doing the same job. And since 1990 the nation's mostly female temp force has mushroomed more than 85%. Yet only 8% of temps receive health benefits; pensions, vacations and sick days are virtually unheard of. In some cases, those part-time jobs are second jobs: in 1971, 20% of moonlighters were women; today almost half are. The trend, says Karen Nussbaum, who is heading a new women's bureau at the AFL-CIO, is that "more family hours are going...