Word: strickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work," says Assistant Labor Secretary Roger Semerad. "Everything in the future is going to be much more technologically oriented, and a much higher level of literacy is going to be required." The proposal applies not just to workers made jobless by foreign competition but to everyone stricken by long-term change...
...battle in the sky. It was unbelievable." So said Jordanian Businessman Salim Dado after surviving a terrifying ordeal aboard an Iraqi jetliner on Christmas Day. According to officials in Saudi Arabia, where the plane subsequently crashed, 62 of the 107 passengers and crew members on the stricken craft were not so lucky: they died in the crash, and about 20 others were injured, in one of the worst hijacking disasters on record...
...books in local libraries, they found no reference to a viral cause of non- Hodgkin's lymphoma. Instead, they came upon another cancer of immune-system cells, Burkitt's lymphoma, which afflicts black African children and is strongly associated with infection by the Epstein-Barr virus. Even though the stricken family is white, says the Georgia victim, "it was the only viral- caused cancer that we could find. Because of that and because of where our visitor came from, we started making the connection...
WASHINGTON--A Soviet nuclear-powered submarine remained "dead in the water" in the Atlantic yesterday, but no smoke was seen spewing from the stricken ship, indicating a fire on board had been extinguished, Pentagon officials said...
Domestic pressures motivated the dumping. American farmers, already driven by federal farm subsidies to overproduce, were stricken in large areas with perfect weather for growing, thus suffering a record-breaking harvest. The subsequent abundance caused a slump in the already sliding commodities market...