Word: affliction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...videocassette recorder, it did scrape together $1.3 billion to buy a finance company. In the meantime, RCA ceded the highly lucrative video-cassette-recorder market to the Japanese. RCA has also suffered from revolving-door management: four chief executives in six years. Bureaucracy, territorial feuds and narrow careerism afflict many large U.S. corporations...
...CYNICAL and streetwise crew in the Bronx district attorney's office have isolated a new cause of death that they've dubbed Lincolnitis. Named after Lincoln Hospital, an understaffed mainstay of its South Bronx neighborhood, Lincolnitis is said to afflict a wide range of patients who expire at Lincoln after entering with less-than-fatal maladies...
Herpes (Greek for a creeping, inflammatory illness) has become notorious in the U.S. because of the type called herpes simplex, which is passed among humans by sexual contact. The name, however, covers some 50 viral infections that afflict animals. The equine variety is transmitted not by mating but by coughing or sniffling and can be "carried" by a seemingly well animal, just as the virus can reside in some humans with no visible ill effects...
...father "Is it true that you're a bloodsucker?" His father could only respond with "You should always believe the party and chairman Mao...I should examine myself thoroughly "Throughout Liang Heng's autobiography Son of the Revolution, his father's response to the repeated political catastrophes that afflict the Liang family continues to be an expression of faith in the party and Mao for a Western reader, this acquiescence stretches credibility at first, but in the context of the powerful mass ideology described throughout the book it seems natural...
Because Gandhi lives in the movie as a force or principle rather than a person, he lives only in his opposition to those antithetical forces which confront him--the injustice, degradation and blunt evil of colonialism and racism. Since these afflict millions, first in South Africa, where Gandhi wages his nonviolent war against the racism of Jan Smuts's regime, and then in India, Gandhi and his battle necessarily take place on the national and international stage. And here the movie wins its audience even if it loses much of its humanity...