Word: sickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to hit home. "Since they're just experiencing their sexual prime and want to act on it, young people push AIDS into their subconscious," says Greg Reynolds, 26, a practicing bisexual in Miami. "But as more people are getting sick and dying of AIDS, it starts hitting their friends. It is much more effective than reading about it in the media. You think, 'I knew him. I could be next...
...only welfare program; the Reagan Administration has issued a much disputed count of 59 federally assisted plans that it considers welfare. Nor is AFDC the biggest; Medicaid accounts for nearly three times as much spending. But AFDC is the principal program that gives cash to people who are neither sick nor disabled; they qualify solely because they have children they cannot support. As such, it is the program that most people think of when they use the word welfare...
Health Services will rarely deny anyone a medical exemption. "It is very difficult to determine how sick someone is. Most people are legitimately sick to the extent that they would feel uncomfortable taking their exams," Wacker said...
...There are many more who are sick, who simply take their exams, and we encourage all students who come to us to take their exams if at all possible," Wacker said...
Some Presidents, sexologists and Nobel Prize winners have all experienced the quintessential rite of senior year: the honors thesis. Bleary-eyed, sick of coffee and immune to NoDoz, some of Harvard's famous graduates have toiled day and night only to produce a large paper that has no bearing on their later life. Others have turned their theses into books or have drawn upon the methodology and ideas in later research and projects...