Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telephone stalls, fumbling with worn-out excuses about unexpected visitors and urgent business meetings. Sometimes I would simply hole up in my office with a bottle after everyone else had gone home. There simply wasn't anything else in my life. Most frightening of all, I began to suffer alcoholic blackouts during drinking episodes. I would swim back into consciousness with no recollection of where I had been or what I had done. Once, I came to late at night on a downtown city street with my suit trousers slashed down one side by a razor...
...picked up and forcibly committed to Bellevue Hospital. The diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia. Brown, represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, contested her "incarceration." Last week she won the first round in what promises to be a landmark court battle over the rights of the homeless, many of whom suffer from psychiatric disorders...
SOME SCHOOLS, however--especially, for instance, community colleges and Black colleges--suffer high default rates because many of their students come from low-income backgrounds. Ivy League universities have lower rates of default simply because their students--and the schools themselves--have more money. Elite schools, for instance, can afford to set up special bureaucracies to deal with student loan-takers. Bennett's solution most hurts the weakest link in American higher education, and puts too little pressure on students at well-endowed schools whose failure to repay their debts is particularly offensive...
...market slowdown. Many more may forfeit their six-figure bonuses. The economic ripple effects will be felt most strongly on the Eastern Seaboard, especially in New York City, where sales of luxury cars, expensive homes, jewelry and other trappings of Wall Street success are already starting to suffer. The city could also be hurt by a falloff in tax revenue from the financial industry, which last year amounted to $150 million, or 12% of the tax base. Anticipating a drop, Mayor Edward Koch last week put a freeze on plans to hire 5,200 new workers, including 1,948 police...
...deathbed that a genial torturer can lie in. But Rafi gets no more or less sympathy than any other character in this exuberant egalitarian stew of a movie. Once the empire has died, taking with it the old notions of great men who shape destinies and insignificant men who suffer like extras in an antediluvian epic, every motive is up for grabs. And what do we find in an empire's night ashes? Punks and ghosts and madmen dancing in the carnage or singing a Motown melody as all the survivors copulate on Armageddon Eve. In Sammy & Rosie's cultural...