Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Been there for the devastating loss at Cornell in the final minute of a game three weeks ago. Been there to suffer--really suffer--their first and only defeat of the 1987 season...
...some West African villages it is common to see children leading their blind elders to the fields, where they serve as human scarecrows. With eyes full of parasitic worms and skin covered by itchy nodules, the adults suffer from onchocerciasis, a disease that afflicts 18 million people in the developing world and permanently blinds 500,000 each year. The worms are spread by black flies, which breed near fast-flowing tropical streams -- hence the name river blindness. Last week New Jersey-based Merck & Co. announced that it will begin distributing ivermectin, a drug that halts onchocerciasis, to affected countries...
...college will advise its financial managers to sell the stocks, worth 6.4 percent of Wheaton's endowment, and reinvest the money so that the school does not suffer a net loss in its portfolio, said Vice President of Finance and Operations Donald Scott. For sale are stocks in seven or eight companies, including DuPont, Hewlett-Packard, ControlData, and Tenneco, Scott said...
Securities firms bringing the stock to the marketplace stand to suffer losses in the deal because of the depressed condition of the markets...
These restrictions bode ill for America's economy and national security. Both are dependent on scientific discovery and technological progress, and both suffer when scholars cannot freely exchange information and debate. With the stock market crash last week and the growing inefficiency of the economy, it is important that the federal government remove any restraints on the creativity of its citizenry...