Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continued to read his brief airport address in the clear, strong voice of a onetime actor, John Paul evoked Christ's words in Matthew 25:36 ("I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me") to express his personal concern for those detained under martial law. "I myself am not able to visit all the sick, the imprisoned, the suffering, but I ask them to be close to me in spirit," he said. Later, in what struck many listeners as a reference to the fact that he had been asked...
...poorly prepared (she had done only some amateur parachute jumping) and, according to word from Soviet defectors, became severely ill during the flight. Indeed, even as she was being strapped into her Vostok capsule, as a last-minute replacement for the original woman candidate, she complained of feeling sick and dizzy. But with Khrushchev looking over their shoulders, Soviet space officials sent the reluctant Tereshkova...
Looking back, one can see two main reasons why it did. The first was the cynicism and stupidity of most American TV. Essentially, Civilisation succeeded because educated people were sick of being talked down to by the networks, whose cultural coverage, or lack of it, was a byword for inadequacy. They refused to buy Civilisation because they thought there would be no audience for it. So instead of being dropped into some Sunday-morning coffin slot on network, it went out on prime time on PBS, straight to 5 million refugees from electronic gunk. The size of this audience would...
...steel industry has also become weak, inefficient and a drain on the American economy. Steel executives have allowed their mills to become outmoded. Observes Harald Malmgren, a trade consultant in Washington: "When you protect any sector, you are shoring up sick companies and prolonging bad management." The steel industry has not, for the most part, used the breathing space offered by protection to modernize its plants. Instead, National Steel Corp. bought some savings and loan associations, and U.S. Steel borrowed $3 billion to acquire Marathon...
...jobs when it claimants their positions. In a border sense, the hard-working dining hall personnel deserve both the feeling and the reality of greater power and self-determination on their jobs. They shouldn't for example, be made to feel that they are malingering every time they take sick leave...