Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primitive sense of justice. "Is Hinckley's crime," the trial prosecutor asked, "the crime of someone who does not know what he is doing and who is out of control, or is it the crime of someone who has an evil, twisted and perverted mind?" The difference between being sick and depressed, psychotic and merely "sad at Christmas," underscored the trial debate. While the prosecution emphasized Hinckley's act, the defense attempted to show that the illogical, disjointed association between Hinckley's violence and his fantasy world was sign of process schizophrenia...
...somehow to reconcile that natural gut reaction which sees the act, the victim, the murderer and calls a spade a spade with the more informed need to preserve conceptions of human will, avoid the connection between illness and evil, and abstain from seeking the hypocritical solution of committing the sick to prisons that offer no treatment or hospitals that are no better than prisons. Discussion centered on two legal reforms: allowing for a verdict of guilty but insane; and restricting the scope of the defense by limiting judgment to a defendant's criminal intent (mens rea is the proper legal...
...workers, who struck November 1 after negotiations failed to resolve benefit issues, last week won a new three-year contract, which guaranteed continued health benefits, a limited wage increase, and for the first time granted sick and vacation...
...Club, which declared bankruptcy 16 months ago, granted workers one paid sick day in their first and third years of employment, and instituted a vacation plan where all workers receive a one week paid vacation whether they work full time or not, said Rice...
...Whatever happened to fund-raising?" asked Ellen Havdala '88. "I'm sick of sitting here listening to people grubbing for money...