Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as our policy remains the same, the contras are the bearers of the expressed national will. When they fail, as military strategists confidently expect them ultimately to do, we will have no choices other than to rescue them or suffer humiliating defeat in an area only a short drive, as President Reagan likes to say, from Harlingen, Texas. We'll be in big trouble with our little war. This time college students won't be exempt. Proximity, along with the spread of the war itself to Central American neighbors, will require universal mobilization...
...Goetz said the four "wanted to play with me, like a cat plays with a mouse" -- before he assumed a shooter's stance and methodically emptied his pistol at his tormentors. "I know this sounds horrible," he said, "but my intention was to murder them . . . to make them suffer as much as possible...
...advances in biotechnology. But to some people it marked the crossing of a sacrosanct dividing line and was cause for alarm. Patenting plants and microbes are one thing, said Veterinarian Michael Fox, scientific director of the Humane Society of the United States, because "they lack the capacity to suffer." By viewing animals as mere products, he continued, "we seem to be forgetting that these are sentient beings...
While animal-rights advocates concede that conventional animal breeding has produced sickly misfits, they fear that genetic engineering will inflict greater suffering and disability. "Researchers are creating new disease complexes that I certainly couldn't treat," says Veterinarian Fox. He objects to another area of genetic engineering: the development of animals that suffer from human diseases like muscular dystrophy. Yet such creatures would be invaluable in testing new drugs for humans...
...apartment: "This law is for old ladies who knit socks, not for people doing real jobs. We don't plan to register." Complained an elderly woman who sells crocheted lampshades: "The inspectors will be poking around all the time. It will be a nightmare." Some entrepreneurs suffer an even worse nightmare. "Look at all the people who got rich during NEP," said a young artisan who makes and sells earrings. "A few years later they were | exiled to Siberia. You never know what's going to happen here...