Word: suffere
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...made. In some disputed areas, there are acres of ripe grain that cannot be harvested because the fields are laced with finger-size mines. Relief convoys find few passable roads and are in constant danger of attack from rebels. Though statistics are hard to come by, those who suffer most in Angola seem to be the young. The U.N. Office of Emergency Operations reported in 1986 that up to 45% of the children in Huambo province, where guerrilla activity is common, suffered from malnutrition...
...directly caused by Colonel Mengistu . . . and his cronies. Their Russian advisers have taught them to run vast state farms that produce no food. Imitating Stalin's anti-kulak terror, they have shot 'hoarders and saboteurs' prudent enough to store grain . . . Help for the starving may make some of them suffer more, and reinforce the grip of the government that caused them to starve. Yet something must be done...
Although five machines had already been repaired two days after the incident, MIT officials said they still were concerned that students who need the computers for classwork would suffer. UMASS...
...Green team wants to invite Olivia Newton-John in tonight, and get physical with Harvard, it will suffer the consequences. What works--or sort of works--in Hanover doesn't fly in Cambridge...
Kennedy compared the plight of contemporary disabled people to that of Blacks in the 1950's. He said that the disabled are discriminated against by being placed in separate schools and denied access to restaurants that lack ramps or elevators. Both groups suffer from "outdated policies that keep people back," Kennedy said...