Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Does Psychologist Lesley Hazleton [BEHAVIOR, June 18] actually send bills to those depressed patients of hers after she smugly tells them, "Suffering once accepted loses its edge"? I am quite sure that human beings were not put on this earth to suffer the painful and paralyzing effects of depression...
...release but was being held on the island.) Invited by Jesse Jackson to join an airport news conference, Vargas took issue with Jackson's self-described peace offensive. Said he: "We don't want a peace that will allow the people of other countries to suffer. I am very sorry to say these things, but I don't believe that Fidel Castro ever will like peace or will look for peace. He is looking to establish tyranny and oppression around the world because he is a Communist. To undertake a moral offensive in Cuba is a moral...
Mint condition. Immaculate. Owned by a little old lady in Pasadena, who drove it only to the bank. Despite those chromy come-ons for used cars, trouble often lurks under the hood. An estimated 50% of used autos suffer mechanical failures within 45 days of the sale. To make car shopping safer for consumers, the Federal Trade Commission in 1981 devised a rule that ordered dealers to disclose a car's known defects on a window sticker. But last week the FTC staff relaxed its requirements...
FORTUNATELY, the entire book does not suffer from this juxtaposition of coherent ideas with whining language. There is, through much of the work, the kind of impassioned and exhortative writing that necessarily accompanies calls for social change. Without it, the book would be unbearably dry. Where Greer shows enough restraint to provoke without battering the reader, she shines. This is not say that most, or even many, readers will agree with her forceful arguments. But they are not easily ignored, and much of Sex and Destiny deserves further attention...
...basic problem, however, is that no one wants to suffer the pain that will be involved in any solution to the debt crisis. Banks are not eager to write off the bad loans and take the earnings loss, while governments in the developed countries are reluctant to halt economic growth just to please foreign moneymen. Thus, no sudden solution is likely to emerge. Says one IMF official: "It is a negotiating process that will run through most of the 1980s." Mexican Finance Secretary Silva Herzog last week recalled Economist John Maynard Keynes' dictum: "Men will do the rational thing...