Word: suffere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activists have complained that the city guidelines--though not as bad as other policies--discriminate against those with AIDS because they distinguish unfairly between sufferers of the disease and those who suffer from other chronic illnesses...
South Africa's black leaders were less sanguine. While welcoming the end of the emergency, they warned that without substantive changes in the system, lifting the decree would do little to reduce tensions. "Political adversaries will continue to be detained, banned and harassed, and township communities will continue to suffer from the depredations of the security forces," said the Detainees' Parents Support Committee. "It now seems that we are about to enter an era of intensified political repression through supercharged security legislation that will confer permanent emergency powers...
...lists among her accomplishments a first place in the New England Young Soloists' Competition) as the dreaded "Queen of the Night" definitely provided the headiest and most musical highpoints of last Thursday night's production. Her first act "Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren" (Fate hath decreed me doomed to suffer) aria was sung with soulful pathos and true heartfelt sorrow as she lamented her lost daughter Pamina's fate...
Predictably, most of the outcry against post-Noel exams comes from freshmen. Hah. There's reason enough for preserving the status quo. As Friedrich Nietzsche once said, we only grow through suffering and affliction. This is why 'shmen have Expos, the mixer, vomit-inducing Weld Hall keg parties and the Union salad bar. This is also why freshmen, by tradition, suffer through a semester of doing all the work, only to get C-pluses...
...staff editorial has a selfish tone to it. We are all students here, and obviously we have a lot to lose in Federal education cutbacks. But to ask that education programs be spared is to ask, indirectly, that other programs suffer more. All America will have to expect less from the Government in coming years; we students ought to tighten our belts with the rest...