Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, it is an affront to those whose ancestors really were slaves and who still suffer the effects of that injustice. To compare the position of those who enter this country, often illegally, to find work, with the position of those who were forcibly brought here to be traded and sold like cattle, is not a comparison at all but an absurd rhetorical juxtaposition...
...researched question in all of American social science in 80 years," says Thomas Pettigrew, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The basic answer is that people still fear strangers or anyone who looks different, and many nations and ethnic groups (not excluding blacks) suffer the same disease in one form or another...
...dough and clearing tables. Before work, he would take off two of his three shirts and hide them in an alley. It pleases him that no one knew ) he was homeless. Says George: "Sure I could have spent that money on some good drink or food, but you gotta suffer to save. You gotta have money to get out of here and I gotta get out of here." Some days he was scolded for eating too much of the food. He often worked without sleep, and with no alarm clock to wake him from the subways or abandoned tenements...
Riesman predicted that "all of academia is likely to suffer" if the mandatory age were abolished. He says that while Harvard may suffer less, small liberal arts colleges will face a tougher time because they tend to have more tenured faculty...
Callers will hear a noticeable improvement in transmission quality, AT&T promises. The current undersea cables are often overcrowded and frequently suffer from static. And satellite connections, which now carry about 60% of transatlantic phone calls, typically produce an echoey sound and an annoying half-second delay because signals must be sent 22,300 miles up to a communications satellite and back down again. Fiber-optic technology, by contrast, delivers a comparatively pure sound. The ultrathin glass fibers in the cable carry information on laser beams of light, which travel with virtually no susceptibility to electronic interference. Long-distance telephone...