Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slows down and grinds to a stop. A door is opened and used bedding is taken out while breakfast is brought in. Similar stops are made at noon and dinnertime for meals to be put aboard. As the room slows down, the occupants must lie down. Otherwise they would suffer vertigo. One little twitch of the head at this stage would destroy their painstakingly built-up adaptation to rotation...
...long way to go to match the lure of such glamorous industrial giants as Ford, IBM, Honeywell and A.T. & T. Jobs with management-consulting firms are more "in" than ever on campus. Railroads and insurance companies are "out" because they are regarded as too stodgy. Selling jobs continue to suffer from a lowly doorbell-ringing image...
...must express actual efficiency of methods of production. Many Soviet economists think that profit can be used as an index for assessing and encouraging the work of our enterprises. However, this does not mean that the Soviet state intends to relinquish its centralized planning management, which will suffer no harm from the improvement of assessment and encouragement, but on the contrary will grow stronger. Your article ignores the role of centralized planning in the Soviet economy and emphasizes profit...
Nevertheless, Ne Win's "instant socialism" is an unholy economic mess. He has nationalized everything from banks (including two Red Chinese ones) to tiny shops selling betel nuts and needles. Since the dispossessed shopkeepers were mostly Indians and Overseas Chinese, the Burmese people took the crackdown philosophically, but suffer because the new government-owned shops are so inefficiently run. Yet even as they queue up for onions and chili peppers in the drab city of Rangoon, which is filled with patched-up pagodas and sidewalks broken by the roots of banyan trees, the Burmese say, "Let's hope...
City Manager John J. Curry '19 announced that the City's services would not suffer as a result of the reduction. The lower rate was achieved despite pay raise amounting to $1.5 million and an increase in the City budget...