Word: suffere
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...opposition, which claims a membership of only 7,000, in contrast to the Kuomintang's 2.2 million, is not likely to pose a significant challenge anytime soon. Still technically illegal until a "civics organization law" is passed at the end of this year or early next, the Democratic Progressives suffer from a bad case of factionalism, which is certain to be aggravated by the recent release of long-imprisoned opposition leaders. Now that they are free again, they are sure to be impatient to reclaim their old political roles...
Noriega's continued rule troubles the Reagan Administration for two reasons. First, the White House justifies its support for the contra rebels primarily by pointing to Nicaragua's lack of democracy. Administration credibility would suffer if the U.S. appeared to be too cozy with dictators. Second, Noriega's attempts to whip up anti-American sentiment and to court countries hostile to the U.S. raise worries about the Panama Canal's future. "Can you imagine what it would be like to have the canal in the hands of a Lebanon-like country?"asks a U.S. official. Whatever pressure the U.S. decides...
...birth and childhood in Danzig (now Gdansk), his service as a Hitler Cub during his early adolescence, and his later authorial relations to one Oskar Matzerath, the hunchbacked, stunted hero of The Tin Drum. Having asked for and received a pet rat as a Christmas present, the speaker begins suffering nightmares in which he must endure diatribes by "the She-rat of my dreams." She complains of, among many other things, the beastly treatment the rat has had to suffer at the hands of humans, dating all the way back to its exclusion from Noah's ark. She also reveals...
...workers, of course, have suffered losses. Among those who have, the rollbacks may involve nonwage items, ranging from lost vacation time to shrunken health benefits. But a pay reduction remains the unkindest cut. Buffy Mello, 34, a divorced mother of three, dreads the arrival of next March because she is among 950 workers at the USS-POSCO steel mill in Pittsburg, Calif., who will suffer a 4.5% pay reduction at that time. For Mello, a junior-grade electrician, the change will reduce her wages from $14.37 an hour to about $13.73, a difference of $108 a month. Other workers elsewhere...
...people." Agrees Dr. David Cohn, a Denver public-health official: "When Patrick Henry said, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' he wasn't talking about AIDS." Still, it is now clear that the more the disease spreads, the more the civil liberties of its victims are likely to suffer. Necessarily, public well-being takes precedence over individual rights, notes Larry Gostin, Harvard professor of health law and a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union. "The danger," he says, "lies in using public health the same way some use national security -- as an overvague justification with no proof...