Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Would you be willing to give up some of your vacation time or sick leave so that it could be used by a co-worker? When employees at the Internal Revenue Service's Cincinnati office read in an office memo a proposal to do just that a few weeks ago, their response was generous indeed. By last week 291 employees had donated 813 days of their sick leave and 92 days of vacation time to a co-worker, William Ault, 28, an IRS examiner who has leukemia...
When Shultz heard about this U.S. offer to sell more arms and to help spring the convicted killers, he testified, it "made me sick to my stomach." He got a Sunday-morning appointment with Reagan to tell him about the proposal. Poindexter had testified that Reagan approved the nine points as a bargaining tool. No way, said Shultz. "I have never seen him so mad," said the Secretary. "He's a very genial, pleasant man, he's very easygoing, but his jaw set, and his eyes flashed . . . In that meeting I finally felt that the President deeply understands that something...
...Corps. Theater Rhinoceros has lost seven actors, directors and playwrights since 1984. Of the six actors in the company's production that year of C.D. Arnold's King of the Crystal Palace, four have died and one now has AIDS. "A nurse in my latest play says, 'I'm sick of all this sickness,' " Arnold notes. "Sometimes I just want to go see 18 Fred Astaire movies in a row and just forget about...
There was no racism involved in the verdict. There was only a notice to people who prey on those of us who appear to be meek that we are sick of being victims. Would Goetz have been less threatened if the toughs who demanded money from him were white? No. The fact is that both blacks and whites who want to feel safe in public areas applaud the verdict...
...accountability is the same thing as Jesus'," Roberts said. When John the Baptist asked Jesus through intermediaries for his credentials, Roberts was indicating, Jesus replied that he had healed the sick and raised the dead. Roberts also said that in the "world to come," he expected to return to Tulsa. He added, "I wouldn't be surprised if God did not bring me back to these 400 acres of Oral Roberts University he has built and would let me reign over these 400 acres...