Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parlors do their biggest business from January to May, catching indoor rays is becoming a year-round pastime. Some palefaces like to establish a base tan before going on vacation; others simply prefer the tanning parlor to a trek to the beach. "I used to call in to work sick so that I could lie out in the sun," says Lola Lanza, 41, of Houston. "Now I can just come here on my lunch hour." Jeannie Frazier, 25, who spends $60 a month to cultivate her tan, maintains that a salon is "better than...
...workers have said the did tore than postpone negotiations. Twarog said Pallotta did not recognize the union and refused to let it distribute leaders and post information at the home. Pallotta also refused to honor the vacation time and the sick leave which employees had accumulated before he took over. He said that since the union's contract expired in April of 1984, there was "no contract in force...
Elderly people in America live alone on fixed incomes in drab apartments. They struggle for the necessities of life, ignored by their children and sick most of the time. That is the stereotype of old folks in America. Last week, however, the annual report of the President's Council of Economic Advisers challenged such conventional wisdom. Said the report: "Thirty years ago the elderly were a relatively disadvantaged group in the population. That is no longer the case." Most elderly people today live in paid-for homes, with enough money to enjoy their leisure years...
...some off-budget outlays). That would be the smallest hike in 21 years. To achieve that goal, Reagan proposes to whack $42 billion out of what would be spent for nonmilitary purposes under existing law. He would freeze, curtail or even eliminate programs that benefit farmers, veterans, students, the sick, small businessmen, exporters and just about everybody else except Social Security recipients...
...more than a month, the questions and rumors have been piling up like snow flurries around the red-brown walls of the Kremlin. Where is Konstantin Chernenko, who was last seen on Dec. 27, handing out awards at a televised ceremony? How sick is he? Is the frail Soviet party leader and President, who suffers from a pulmonary disorder, dying? Is he about to resign? Above all, who will succeed...