Word: afflictions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest monument to the merger-brokering attempts of the former Labor government. The company, which is barely profitable, still offers too many models, and cannot produce enough of them to meet rising demand. British Leyland's market share is declining in the face of imports. Problems also afflict Germany's combine of Volkswagen and Audi NSU Auto Union. The basic trouble has been the declining popularity of the Beetle-in the first ten months of this year sales of Volkswagens in the U.S. have fallen to 398,000, compared with 463,000 in the equivalent period last year...
...greatest troubles afflict the ambitious transnational combinations of companies. Two years ago, Britain's Dunlop and Italy's Pirelli pooled interests to form a tire, cable and rubber giant, with sales of $2.3 billion. At the time, Leopoldo Pirelli, chairman of his family-run Italian company, said, "This is a marriage from which there is no turning back." Yet last week the partners had divorce in mind...
...golf course because that is the nastiest oath he knows. Other insurance leaders as well as some hospital administrators, doctors, trial lawyers and auto-company executives can barely repress their anger whenever they hear the name. Of all the meddling bureaucrats and thorn-in-the-side consumer advocates who afflict big business, none is so infuriating as Herbert Sidney Denenberg, the insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania...
Equally debilitating are cluster headaches, which strike their victims repeatedly for relatively short periods. A siege of intermittent pain can last several months. These headaches, which usually affect one side of the head in much the manner of migraines, are seven or eight times more likely to afflict men than women...
Large-scale busing for integration is not a long-range solution to the inequalities that still afflict American society. It is a transitional inconvenience, an interim, makeshift answer to an awkward social problem. Many of the protests against it, accompanied by all the anguish and apprehension it causes in many white families, have a claim to respect. Yet, until bad schools improve and neighborhoods integrate, to outlaw busing would be to run the risk that the dangerous gulf between two nations ?one black, one white?could grow even wider...