Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dean Rosovsky censured Kilson and asked him to write a letter of apology to York. Kilson subsequently took a sick leave this term...
Confronted by this criticism, Biogenics' scientific director, Dante Picciano, refused to cooperate with EPA in an independent review. He also challenged the assertion that the study was biased toward those already ill: "We did not know who was sick and who wasn't. The people were selected primarily on the basis of where they lived...
...document conditions in the waters. The labs turned up some hopeful signs: the absorption capacity of the Mediterranean proved to be greater than many experts had imagined, and pollution levels were not uniformly critical. Concluded Stjepan Keckes, the Yugoslav marine scientist who headed the U.N. team: "The Mediterranean is sick, but it is not dead and it is not even dying...
...hear one more call for a meeting about the women or for the women or because of the women, I'm going to get sick," a male cadet confides. He is not alone in that opinion, though a report on the Academy puts the matter more formally. "Oversensitivity to the presence of women at West Point on the part of the staff and faculty has been disruptive, serving to alienate the men, foster separatism, and delay the complete integration of the Corps of Cadets." "It's the most traumatic thing that's happened since they took away...
...scapegoats and expelled by new nationalist leaders. But Africans are still surprised and touched by the willingness of missionaries to struggle in the hinterlands, helping to dig wells, teaching reading and writing, commanding life-giving sacks of grain during periods of famine, risking their lives trying to cure the sick...