Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still haunting presence of the elderly poor, most of them widows, many of them black, collapsing into a safety net that cannot support their weight. The well-being of America's senior citizens, though far greater than 20 years ago, is by no means universal. Many are sick and getting sicker, as health care becomes prohibitively expensive. Every year, as the baby boomers age and the nation's center of gravity shifts upward, the allocation of resources becomes ever more difficult and the potential for conflict between generations ever greater...
...There's some question as to whether the [Students for White Supremacy] actually exist," Molin said. "This may just be a bad, sick joke--the product of one or more sick minds...
Staff members had developed detailed plans so the 320 sick children could be moved with the least possible disturbance, but some changes in the hospital's routine were inevitable...
Laura said she will eventually have a tutor, but for now she is homework-free. Even so, she said she misses school. "When I'm in school sometimes I wish I was sick so I wouldn't have to be there. But when I'm in the hospital getting poked, I wish I was at school with all my friends," she said...
...hospital will use two floors of the old building as "quasi-dormitory space" for parents of Intensive Care patients who are too sick to have their parents sleep in their rooms, Peck said...