Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what if these students were uninsured and became sick or injured? For some, the anwer would be Medicaid. Any full-time student under 21 years old with less than $2000 in assets and less than $483 in mothly income is eligible for Medicaid assistance. If the state has been woefully negligent in publicizing that fact, perhaps it's because Massachusetts is already several hundred million dollars delinquent on it's Medicaid obligations. Or perhaps it's because Medicaid dollars don't go to insurance companies...
...have sinned. I have made mistakes. But never in my life did I intend to defraud anyone." That last-ditch bid for leniency made little impression on the judge, known as "Maximum Bob" because of his penchant for stiff sentences. "Those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money- grubbing preachers and priests," Potter angrily told the defendant. Bakker, 49, was quickly bound in handcuffs and leg-irons and driven to a federal facility in Talladega, Ala., to begin serving his time. He is to be transferred to a medium-security medical center...
...reason: union sick-leave policies would mean the city would have to bear the cost of pre-natal care and maternity leaves...
Another superstar is Alan Chumak, psychic-in-residence of 120 Minutes, the Soviet equivalent of the Today show. Chumak can transmit his curative powers to heal the sick not only through live TV but even on videotape. Viewers can place glasses of water or jars of cold cream next to their sets to absorb his telepathic healing charges. Chumak has promised to solve the country's chronic food problems by energizing seeds, compelling them to produce larger crops. When Chumak was yanked off the air by skeptical superiors, a popular outcry brought him back. A Siberian fan in Bratsk wrote...
...wait until 11 o'clock that night before I was perfectly miserable, and only then did I think of my father and the times he would stay up with me when I was sick and make sure I felt well, or at least comforted...