Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Although a number of studies indicate that laboratory animals suffer no side effects from ingesting irradiated foods, some experiments did reveal genetic mutations...
...policy statements; the Soviet public has not seen a single picture of him on holiday. The mystery deepened last week: Chernenko did not appear at closing ceremonies of the Friendship '84 Games, despite expectations that he might. ABC News reported that Chernenko, who is said to suffer from emphysema, returned to Moscow in a wheelchair and may be undergoing medical treatment, but the item could not be confirmed...
Other surveys have found that such athletic women as distance runners, dancers and joggers can suffer temporary infertility. The reason is that their body fat sometimes becomes too low for the production of the critical hormone estrogen. Stress can also suppress ovulation; women executives often miss two or three consecutive menstrual periods...
...first) refused almost destroyed Ferraro. The ethics laws so enthusiastically enacted post-Watergate, so confidently entrusted with protecting the public weal, can also undermine it. And not surprisingly, since they are based on an illusory faith in the redemptive power of institutional arrangements. Owing to their history, Americans suffer from this touching superstition more than most people. After all, the founding fathers did practically invent the separation of powers to prevent the accumulation of tyrannical power. That lucky stroke has predisposed Americans to believe that if they could only find the right law, the right oversight committee, the right disclosure...
Merging the characters of the manservant and the King's messenger converts the monarch from a protector to a tyrant who will let his citizens suffer to increase their awe and dependence. The change derives from a genuine insight: as Pintilie notes in the program, the play is full of instances of people being spied upon, or believing that they are. Perhaps it takes an East European, schooled in the ways of the surveillance state, to grasp the political implications of that conventional element of farce. But for spectators in the American Midwest, the climactic revelation is perceptibly, persuasively...