Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost is not the issue. The issue is whether Americans will collectively bear the burden of treating illness, just as we share the burden of defense and police protection. Or will we simply tell the sick and injured of the working class, "tough luck...
While the non-league loss to the Wildcats was painful for the Crimson to bear, it will not hamper Harvard's hunt for an Ivy crown...
...capital city of Dhaka, where the President's residence was knee-deep in water, streets had been transformed into canals. Boatmen were charging whatever the market would bear to move people to safe ground, but some clung to the roofs of their flooded huts to ward off looters. Ricksha Driver Mohammed Nasser, 18, boasted that he was making $5 a day carrying passengers through flooded streets. He will need the money: the shanty he shared with his mother and sister was washed away...
Doctors have little doubt that crack is driving the new epidemic of drug- affected infants. "When crack cocaine hit Oakland, the number of small, sick babies just went through the roof," says Fulroth. The statistics bear him out. In 1984 some 5% of the newborns at Highland General Hospital, which serves Oakland's rough inner city, were contaminated with the drug. So far this year, about 20% of all babies born at Highland have been afflicted by crack. The problem, however, is not confined to low-income, minority patients. Says Chasnoff: "Our findings cut across all socioeconomic backgrounds...
...Bear-estroika! Plus cossacks, tigers and acrobats. After a decade, the Moscow Circus returns with a spectacular 14-city U.S. tour...