Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Take Back the Night" march at the suggestion of friends and felt acutely uncomfortable for the duration: it was clear that I was not of the rallying ilk and found no refuge in a raised fit or a charged slogan. But it occurred to me that my discomfort then was no worse than that which, I and many women and men feel when alone in regions of violence and unrest...
That will no doubt be seen by many as a richly deserved rebuke to an airline whose 3,000 planes and 600,000 employees once freighted more passengers more miles in greater discomfort than any other carrier in the world. During the past three years, however, the stock-in-trade tales of Aeroflot's imperious cabin crews, wretched meals and white-knuckle landings that once left travelers laughing nervously in the aisles have turned decidedly unfunny...
...symptoms of postpolio mimic those of the original disease, albeit in a less virulent form. They include fatigue and exhaustion, muscle weakness, painful joints and, sometimes, difficult breathing. The discomfort usually begins in the muscles affected by the original infection but can spread. Patients who got polio before age 10 and suffered particularly severe cases seem to be the most susceptible to the aftereffects...
...settlement of the war. He has not so much led as let himself be led -- by French pressure and his own more hawkish advisers. Given his months of pledges and backdowns, he has hardly prepared the country to invest in Bosnia. But a President whose discomfort with security issues is physically visible and whose foreign policy had seemed to be dominated by a fear of body bags has now placed himself and the country in a position of risk...
...stumbles to a chair and despairs at the impossibility of ver reading newspaper. Lives are restructured around treatment whose side effects are a mortal disease in themselves. Each person is assigned a number, ostensibly in order to ensure confidentiality. In this way, the healthy can cope with their discomfort by distancing themselves from the sick through this denial of their identities. Fairly soon, these numbers will become statistics...