Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior Mondale had other lasting influences on his son. "He would tell us, 'You only get spanked for lying or dishonesty,' " the Senator recalls. His father discouraged his sons from using tobacco by forcing them to smoke two cigars-enough to make them wretchedly sick. Alcohol was also banned in the Mondale household. Fritz Mondale still only smokes an occasional cigar, and two Scotches amount to a bender...
...lifetime calling has been healing. She trained as a registered nurse, and even after she married James Earl Carter, a farmer-businessman, she continued as a kind of community physician -and not just for whites. She sat up through the night with sick black children as well. In an era of strict segregation, she would greet black friends at the front door or in her parlor, while her husband went out the back door to avoid witnessing such a breach of local mores...
...llet's cradle-to-grave benefits are unmatched in any other free society outside Scandinavia. Swedes enjoy free public education through college, four weeks' annual vacation and comprehensive retraining programs if they want to switch careers. On the average, Swedish workers take 22 days per year of sick leave (for which they get 90% of their regular salary) and pay $3.40 at most for each visit to an out-patient clinic. On retirement at age 65, an industrial laborer earning $11,250 annually is entitled to a pension of $8,726. In pursuit of new ways to ease...
...Sweden's laboratory getting out of hand? Many Swedes think so. To pay for social security, employers must now ante up as much as $38.70 to the state for every $100 in salary they disburse. This is in addition to what businesses must spend for vacations, holidays and sick leaves. The individual Swede also pays for his privileges, in the form of some of the world's highest income taxes; that industrial worker who earns $11,250, for instance, must give the taxman $4,125. Levies on the half-million self-employed Swedes-professionals, farmers, intellectuals and small...
...darling, and the Soviet team's ticket to exhibition performances in Europe and America. But the experience left her thirsty for Western-style perks of stardom, and her already cool relationship with Soviet Coach Renald Knysh turned to ice. She announced at one point that she was "sick and tired of gymnastics," and talked of a stage career. "Capricious," was Teammate Turishcheva's delicate characterization. But the Korbut who trained at Minsk last month suddenly seemed a grownup; her concentration was mended, her mind was on her show instead of show biz, and she had a new weapon...