Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although acute infections like influenza kill thousands each year, most people defeat their tiny attackers. Still, they may suffer while the battle is being waged. Indeed, many of the typical symptoms of infection -- fever, chills, itchy rashes, localized swelling -- are due less to the virus than to the vigorous activity of the immune system. However, once the body has created a population of antibody-producing B cells designed to combat a specific virus, immunity to that virus often lasts for decades, or even a lifetime. Then why does the common cold return again and again? One reason, scientists explain...
...Harvard lineup may suffer from the loss of Oja, a sophomore, who is suffering from an ingrown toenail...
...performance was not as dramatic as the competition for Marchiando Trophy on October 18 and 19. The Radcliffe team fielded two sailors--while other teams had three--because of Fogg's injury. The heroics of Betsy Robinson and Susie Carter led the team to the championship round, only to suffer a loss to Brown...
...unsightly affliction. Victims of blepharospasm suffer from continual eyelid muscle spasms that clamp the lids closed for seconds to minutes. In effect, sufferers are left blind. Over the past six years, however, more than 2,300 Americans have had their blepharospasm symptoms eased by an experimental drug called Oculinum. But now nationwide testing has been halted because the manufacturer says he is no longer able to find an insurance company that will sell him affordable liability coverage. Apparent reason: Oculinum is made from botulinus toxin, the deadly bacterial poison that causes botulism...
...Tenants suffer from this presumption of fairness when outrageously high levels of profit approaching 90 percent of the gross rent in 1967 are carried forward to the present. This legalized rent-gouging is a continuing testimonial to the unbridled greed of a few landlords in the "fair" rental markets of 1967. While the tenants paying these rents suffer most, all tenants and the rent control policy suffer as responsible landlords observe a few greedy neighbors receiving huge profits without basis in any rational analysis of the rent. The appearence of "unfairness" most easily leads to pressure to raise all rents...