Word: suffere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas, the center of the U.S. oil industry, government analysts estimate that each $1-per-bbl. drop in prices will cost the state 25,000 jobs and $100 million in revenues. The declines make it less rewarding for companies to drill and develop wells. Local banks could suffer greatly if the fall continues. Says Frank Anderson, director of financial research for Weber, Hall, Sale & Associates, a Dallas brokerage: "The real problem will come if the contract price gets to $15 per bbl. and stays there for six months to a year. Then you'll see serious loan losses, a restructuring...
...fans remain. The unique sociological phenomenon that grips New England each sports season is a perverse yet sacred masochism. We live and die with our teams. We suffer, sacrifice, and rejoice--and inevitably, suffer again...
...self-perpetuating male social organizations and the fact of their excluding women prompts suspicion, nowadays. But, in most circles, that unfashionable behavior (the basis, I presume, for the charge of bigotry) is seldom criticized as other than anomalous so long as there is no reason to think non-members suffer serious harm. Grossman says nothing to explain the secrecy he finds objectionable. The Clubs' self-proclaimed social purpose is enough, apparently to assure him of their "hedonism" and "selfishness...
...including members, will argue that membership in the Clubs is central to life at Harvard today. I have yet to encounter a student who felt his College career wasted for lack of membership in a Club, though some, no doubt suffer mild disappointment. The possibility of belonging simply leavens the loaf for those eligible and interested, while inflicting little harm on any interested but ineligible. In treating the matter otherwise, I believe that the College has erred, confusing licit discrimination with that which is properly abjured...
...explain that men who use chewing tobacco suffer higher incidents of lip and gum cancer...