Word: suffere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your mistakes, you don't suffer as much," advises Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca in his current best seller, Talking Straight. Last week Iacocca's company made good on its most infamous goof-up in years, the practice of test-driving some of its cars as far as 300 miles with their odometers disconnected and then selling the cars as brand...
...true at St. Christopher's is the system of pain control developed by Dame Cicely and others. The hospice only admits patients with terminal cancer or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, the motor-neuron illness commonly known in the U.S. as Lou Gehrig's disease. Fully 60% of new arrivals suffer from pain that has been consuming them, sometimes for weeks. With a combination of morphine and other drugs, such as tranquilizers, administered every four hours, the pain is quickly eliminated for most patients. But other components of pain are, in their way, equally agonizing. "I would...
Feelings about the draft continued to run high after it was abolished. As a freshman Congressman in 1977, Quayle voted to cut off funds for President Jimmy Carter's proposed program to grant amnesty to Viet Nam draft dodgers. Yet Wheeler speculates that Quayle, like others his age, may suffer from a vague sense of shame. "Most men who did not go to Viet Nam feel a twinge of guilt," says Wheeler, adding, "It's unnecessary emotional freight." Wheeler believes Quayle should speak out about the fears and conflicted feelings that so many young men experienced during the war. Such...
...friends and relatives year after year. His parents would joke and bluff their way through the painful moment. "Maybe next year, champ!" Later in the night they would cry themselves to sleep together. Their son's wish, like that of more than 50,000 other Americans who suffer from some form of dwarfism, had long been ungrantable...
...vice president also thinks that his promise to appoint a Hispanic to his cabinet will attract Hispanic voters. But it's a question of dessert before the dinner. Bush must still address why Hispanics still suffer from poverty and unemployment in a nation that according to President Reagan, prospers from low unemployment and lower interest rates...