Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southwest flies the highly economical Boeing 737 and concentrates on markets in which it outschedules and underprices its bigger competitors. Braniff charges $148 for a Houston-Dallas round-trip fare; Southwest charges only half as much, $74. Says Southwest President Howard Putnam: "Everyone says that we ought to be sick like the other airlines, but we feel...
...also worried a bit about Bush's advocacy of the Equal Rights Amendment and his opposition to a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion, stands that arouse the passionate dislike of some of Reagan's followers. Finally, says one Republican National Committee official, Reagan by last Wednesday "was getting sick and tired of having George Bush's name shoved down his throat by his staff...
...Bayfront Park stands the Torch of Friendship, erected as a symbol of the hope that someday, there would be friendship and understanding between all peoples of the Americas. Today the Torch of Friendship is a kind of sick joke...
Beyond the personal grief, back pain exacts a staggering social cost. In the U.S., 93 million workdays are lost each year be cause of back problems. In Sweden, where sick-pay benefits are liberal, backaches are the single largest cause of worker absenteeism. Americans, in their often fu tile quest for relief, now spend $5 billion a year for tests and treatment by a dizzying array of back specialists, including orthopedists, osteopaths, physical therapists and chiropractors, to say nothing of self-styled gurus who promote every man ner of cure. Billions more are paid out in disability claims, lawsuit awards...
...idea of either industrialization or a new industrial policy infuriates some observers. Says Yale Professor William Nordhaus, a former member of President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers: "Reindustrialization is a Hula Hoop. On a deeper level, it is a pernicious idea that basically calls for re-enforcing sick indus tries." Charles Willson, vice president for area development at Chicago's Continen tal Bank, says that Government-sponsored cures "don't address the question of capital formation in a really productive...