Word: suffere
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Gergen, who graduated from the law school in 1967, cited American Bar Association statistics indicating that 15 to 20 percent of all lawyers suffer from alcoholism and drug abuse--twice the national average--and a Johns Hopkins study which found that law is the leading profession in incidence of depression in America...
...more people go around calling Harvard Square a mall, the more of a self-fulfilling prophecy it will be," Sudholz says. "People will stop coming here if they hear all it is is a mall. The people who [would] suffer the most from this are the small businesses...
...mother, who could barely afford to support her two children, worked full time as a maid. Jackson once described how she used to go to work with runs in her stockings in order to buy Jackson and his brother matching socks, so that they would not have to suffer the snickers of their school classmates...
...week as his Microsoft deposition, the AOL boss took time out to appear on Capitol Hill to make an impassioned argument for government regulation in the cable-Internet industry. His pitch: the FCC needs to make sure that the little guys--which in his book include AOL--don't suffer if proprietorial cable services like AT&T's At Home or Time Warner's RoadRunner end up owning the online gateway. "It's a battle," Case said, "between good and evil." The FCC isn't entirely convinced, but it has agreed to look into the matter...
...affliction that can lead to undereating, overeating, food or gas poisoning, depression, even death. More than three-quarters of us will suffer from it by the time we reach our 80s. But the good news is that in some cases this affliction--the loss of taste or smell, which together enable us to savor food--can be treated. And even when these senses can't be restored, there are ways to compensate...