Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff of 175 people. Gruff and authoritarian, he was also fair, compassionate, humorous and fiercely loyal to his staff. According to a coworker, "Even those who didn't like him liked him." Boyd paid ceaseless attention to every detail, worked 100-hour weeks and was never sick. If a cold threatened, his procedure was to stay up all night so that it could not catch him unawares...
...staff were ever sick either -they didn't dare be. Recalls one: "Boyd wouldn't recognize anything short of an amputation." Equally tireless away from work, Boyd over the years has run a program in the Catskills for neighboring kids as well as his own five children and seven grandchildren. He also skis, bicycles and teaches handicraft and square dancing...
John P. Shaeffer, shop steward in the central kitchen who presented the official complaint to Simpson on Glass's behalf, said last week Glass charges Simpson with both discrimination and not following University sick leave policy...
Petri said ostomates are also unfairly discriminated against in health insurance and employment. Rather than seeing ostomy as the cure that it is, she said, they are afraid ostomates will get sick again...
...says he's got 20 pounds more to lose and that he looks so thin because he's playing an old trick that Jimmy Curley originated. "When you want people to feel sorry for you, you try and look like a sick old man--you wear big clothes...