Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman who once looked after him as a child. "I've met half my home town," he quipped. "They'll vote twice, so that's everyone." Mulroney's easy manner and sonorous voice are so well suited to television campaigning, however, that he may suffer from what one Canadian commentator calls the "glib factor," a perception that he is too smooth and too vague on the issues...
...some types of U.S. crude by as much as $2 per bbl., to $26. The trend may force two big producers, Britain and Nigeria, to mark down the official price of their crude. Said Constantino Fliakos, oil analyst at Merrill Lynch: "If that happens, OPEC ultimately would suffer and have to lower its official price again...
Some bankers doubt that a slimmed-down Continental under the control of the FDIC would be a workable venture. They argue that the bank could become too bogged down in bureaucracy to compete profitably with other banks. Staff morale at Continental would probably suffer, and top executives would leave the bank. At one time the largest commercial and industrial lender in the U.S., Continental would rank as only a regional player, half the size of its former head-to-head rival, First Chicago (assets: $40.5 billion...
Despite the spreading upswing, however, Western Europe continues to suffer from high unemployment. The jobless rate is expected to remain at 10% in 1984 and decline next year by a mere half a percentage point. Michael Emerson, Chief Forecaster for the Commission of the European Communities and a guest at last week's meeting, noted that Europe's "non-performance" in creating new jobs was becoming dramatic. Emerson said that the rigidity of the European labor market, where unions are strong enough to make layoffs extremely difficult, have raised real wage costs over the past ten years...
...premium ice cream. NutraSweet, the sugar substitute, may soon be used to further reduce calories. Because Tofutti is both butterfat and cholesterol-free, Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach even serves the confection to heart patients. It contains no lactose, good news for the millions of Americans who suffer an adverse reaction to milk-based products...