Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...views on modern culture have frequently boiled over into newspapers and magazines. But Burgess, 63, is no club Tory grumbling behind his Times and Spectator. He is a rugged, independent Christian humanist who confronts an age that has depersonalized and secularized his values. Such novels as The Doctor Is Sick, Devil of a State and A Clockwork Orange are not only cautionary satires but examples of Burgess's flair for Joycean wordplay and knack for turning out novels that entertain as well as instruct...
...only can the robot work three shifts a day, but it takes no coffee breaks, does not call in sick on Mondays, does not become bored, does not take vacations or qualify for pensions-and does not leave Coca-Cola cans rattling around inside the products it has helped assemble. Its "up time" on the job averages around 95% (the figure for the average blue-collar worker is about 75%). In addition to its Horatio Alger work habits, it is immune to government and union regulations on heat, fumes, noise, radiation and other safety hazards. The robot has no affections...
Afterwards, Chapus attributed his time to the unlikely cause of illness. "I've been really sick for the last few weeks and really sick for the last few weeks and haven't been practicing. I guess that shows that it helps to be well rested," he said...
...sick-out is an act of illegal work stoppage," she added...
University administrators said yesterday that faculty who participate in the sick-out will not receive full paychecks...