Word: sickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attitude," Blair says. "I had to do everything right, I was so responsible for what happened to this team, and I wasn't having fun. Before we played RPI, just after Christmas, halfway through the practice I was just hating it. I said, I hate playing, I'm just sick...
...been up for three days straight snorting cocaine and that he was scheduled to fly a passenger jet to Europe that night. He was feeling exhausted and paranoid, he confided, but was sure he could stay awake and alert if he just kept taking drugs. "Call in sick and get some sleep," urged the hot-line counselor. The counselor, who never found out what the pilot finally decided to do, says that such calls are not unusual...
...that is affecting job performance can encourage workers to contact an employee- assistance counselor. After initial medical examinations and counseling sessions, patients are generally referred to a hospital or outpatient drug clinic for treatment, which may take from four to six weeks. During that period the employees are given sick leave with pay, and their status is kept confidential. Company health-insurance benefits pay all the treatment costs. Once employees return to the job, they are allowed to attend follow-up counseling sessions during work hours. Says Dr. Joseph M. Cannella, Mobil's medical director: "We like to identify people...
...sooner had the helicopters whisked away Ferdinand Marcos, his family and entourage than the looters and the curious began to arrive. They found a half- eaten bowl of caviar and the hospital bed and medical equipment of a sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: "Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream." Eustacia Soliven, a Manila dentist, reflected later, "Maybe we have learned something from all this. After all, the best things we see in France...
Marcos is old and sick and a long-time ally of the U.S. He and Imelda shouldn't have to open a Ma and Pa shop in order to support themselves. But that doesn't mean he should be allowed to go on living like a king after the revolution has knocked him off the throne and out of the palace. The cash and valuables they spirited out last week and the property they bought with American aid should be confiscated and returned to the Filipino people. And if Marcos still feels he's strapped for cash, well...