Word: affliction
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...dramatic cures were proposed for any of the many ills that afflict the global economy. Indeed, the very fact that the world's economic wizards got together with so little result seemed to unsettle investors and traders more than ever...
...YORK--Researchers are studying an acute social disease whose victims at one time or another afflict almost everyone around them: bores...
...function of the avant-garde to afflict the comfortable, to , stick a rude thumb into society's eye? Maybe not. Playwright Robert Coe, who has collaborated with both Glass and Anderson, has noted that the "avant- garde performing arts just don't play by the same rules as a decade ago . . . For the first time in the history of postwar experimental performance, serious artists have ceased to assume an attitude of indifference or superiority to the culture-at-large." Perhaps as a result, popular culture is no longer indifferent to them. Observes Byrne: "In the past, traditional artists didn...
Horner told the graduating seniors to "workfirst to to comfort the afflicted," who are thoseconfused by their quickly changing position in theworld. Then, she told them, "to afflict thecomfortable," who Horner said were thosecomplacent with the way the world...
...until Sunday morning did a State Department spokesman announce that the body was at last on its way to a U.S. air base in Spain for identification. Used first as proof of the hijackers' resolve, the stranded corpse had thus become a symbol of the obstacles and divisions that afflict the terrorists' homeland...