Word: suffere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long, oh Lord, must we suffer? A lot depends on the House -- a vote to impeach means at least another six months of Monica. Meanwhile, President Clinton travels to the land of Canan -- but not before uttering an impassioned plea: Let my people...
...that's where Fox comes in. The former Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly might just be the best spokesperson for a disease which has been somewhat on the periphery of the American consciousness. There have been occasional revelations that public figures suffer from the illness, including Attorney General Janet Reno, the boxer Mohammed Ali and Pope John Paul II. And in 1990, the movie "Awakenings" illustrated with striking realism the physical incapacity of patients with Parkinsonian symptoms. But for whatever reason (perhaps because the public figures stricken with Parkinson's are in the expected age bracket for the disease...
...Professor of Public Policy Professor David T. Ellwood '75, who helped guide Clinton's welfare program as an assistant secretary in the early years of the administration, said that while some benefits--such as health care for young children--have been increased, families near the poverty line will still suffer if the economy takes a downturn...
Author Stephen Covey, cited in Andrew Ferguson's "Goodbye, Brave Newtworld" [ESSAY, Nov. 16], is on to us. Management consultants will suffer from the Gingrich fallout now that Newt's "thinking" has been compared with the "banalities...broken down and presented as 'steps' and 'affirmations'" in Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. For years, management mavens have been getting away with best sellers, that, like most of us passing through airport customs, have nothing to declare. Fortunately for the authors, few of their readers have ever read my 1984 article in International Management, "Sifting the Nonsense...
Finally, we must recognize that markets are messy--frequently overshooting or undershooting desired targets--and that it is ordinary working people, not investors, bankers and business leaders, who suffer most when they do. When that happens, as may be the case in the final years of this century, it is worth remembering that there is a role for government in protecting society's weakest members from the markets' excesses while encouraging the animal spirits that free markets unleash. Getting that balance right will be a challenge for business and government in the century ahead...