Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turtles, who actually come from the dry foothills of the Atlas Mountains, found the lettuce strange and exotic to their taste. A number of them became sick from overeating. Some of the healthier turtles managed to escape out into the streets of Dunkirk. Special barriers had to be built. Debruyne, meanwhile, received the bills for the regular care and feeding of the turtles-all 25,000 of them. He also had to pay for the veterinarian. "What a silly idea, taking the turtles out of their baskets and stuffing them with lettuce," he fumed. "They could have easily fasted...
...Athens they installed Palace Chaplain Ieronymos Kotsonis, a gray-bearded stripling then 61. A professor of canon law and author of more than 90 published works, Ieronymos started out with all the zeal of a theologian newly armed with power. He ordered special drives to aid the poor and sick, revamped the church welfare system, rented hundreds of "homes of tranquillity" for the aged. He raised clerical salaries substantially. He drafted a new charter for the church that set 72 as the retirement age for bishops, broadened participation by the laity, and gave the church more responsibility for religious education...
...slumped by a full $1 billion in April, to $41 billion. One reason: growth in personal income slowed in May for the third month in a row, climbing by a slim 0.5%. Says Arthur Okun, a member of TIME's Board of Economists: "The consumption figures look awfully sick for the second quarter...
...maternity leave with pay. In the past, a woman leaving work to bear a child forfeited her pay. The new policy treats maternity leaves the same as leaves for illnesses, allowing the woman to collect her salary if her absence does not exceed the number of days allowed for sick leave...
...pinned to the summit is its treatment in the Soviet press. For weeks, articles have appeared daily applauding Brezhnev's peaceful-coexistence policy and depicting his trip to the U.S. as of historic significance. Americans are described, in a refreshingly unpolemical way, as eager for trade and "sick and tired of the cold...