Word: afflictions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ministrable. Dzu's very energy made Suu and Huong seem old and tired in comparison. His catcalling at the vested authorities, Ky and Thieu, undoubtedly struck a gleeful chord in a country where, as Henry Cabot Lodge observed in Newsday, "a Vietnamese proverb says that five evils afflict mankind: fire, flood, famine, armed robbery and central government...
Reporters' attempts at candor in uncandid situations contribute to the peculiarities of style that afflict most "informed source" stories. American reporters are brought up in the "he said, she said" tradition of open quotes openly arrived at. American reporters are uneasy with the sweeping statements affected by Frenchmen and other foreigners; the average American newspaperman is constitutionally unable to write a sentence like "The future of NATO is threatened by the re-opening of the Schleswig-Holstein question" without pinning it on someone. Hence when the source is informed but anonymous, the writer casts about for substitutes for "he said...
Besides the shortage of delegates and electoral votes, small-staters suffer from other handicaps that do not afflict the Governors of New York, California and Michigan. With their modest personnel budgets, they cannot readily afford the large staffs necessary to put a politician in the spotlight and keep him there. There are fewer big moneymen in the back yard willing to finance political spadework, fewer political professionals available to give counsel and serve as delegate hunters...
...passengers among those remaining led to such ferociovis cab wars -with arson and shooting-that the city in 1937 severely limited the number to prevent even more violence. New York now has only 11,772 licensed taxis to serve almost 1,000,000 passengers a day. Similar hold-downs afflict people in Boston, Philadelphia, Miami and San Francisco...
National Preoccupation. Within his own department, Gardner is experimenting with a spate of solutions to what he calls the "crises of organization" that afflict practically every domestic U.S. program. "Most organizations have a structure that was designed to solve problems that no longer exist," says Gardner, and he has been tinkering with HEW's machinery ever since he arrived...