Word: suffere
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...salesclerks, teachers and health-care workers. Moreover, according to Muller, the arrival of a large group of new workers at the bottom of the economic ladder has, in the traditional pattern of American immigration, helped others climb to the next rung. Muller found that California's blacks did not suffer an increase in unemployment because of immigration. One reason: increases in the immigrant population have led to an expansion of government services, which has created new jobs for middle-class blacks...
...outside. Women don't have that," says Gail Lerner, an administrative officer for the World Council of Churches. "Isolation is great. The extended family, the neighbors they depended on in their home country are gone. I'm not talking about kaffeeklatsches, but physical and moral support." Immigrant women also suffer the frustration of being regarded at home as fringe contributors, when in reality their wages are almost always essential to the family's survival. Some immigrant women have been physically abused by employers. Many of the women among Southeast Asian boat people were abducted and raped by marauding pirates; they...
...Administrative Board already exists as a disciplinary body. However, the College does not punish activists under this board because it would have to suffer more blame for its actions. Harvard takes full responsibility for Ad Board punishments because it is made up completely of administrators and senior tutors. But under CRR actions, responsibility is partially shifted from the University because students are intended to make up half the court. This makes it seem like activists get punished because their peers, rather than their elders, disapprove of their activity...
...yearlong cutoff of U.S. aid did not hamper the contras' recruiting efforts. Indeed, the FDN claims to have grown from 6,000 to more than 14,000 men. Though the contras suffer from occasional equipment shortages, about $10 million in private donations from conservative groups in the U.S., Taiwan and South Korea have largely made up for the lost...
...widely feared, relatively few people are vulnerable. Doctors estimate that by age 20, 95% of the U.S. population have been exposed to Staph. aureus toxin and have developed immunity. Of the remaining 5%, some may be genetically incapable of developing immunity. These women and men may actually suffer more than one bout of TSS, which can be treated with antibiotics...