Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both the affirmative action and model minority arguments pit minority groups against each other on a scale of legitimacy. In the words of Harvard Professor Glenn C. Loury, these arguments "require us to compare degrees of suffering and extents of moral outrage as experienced internally, subjectively, by different peoples." In Loury's view, it is Blacks who compare the suffering of minority groups when they respond to their critics by saying "you didn't suffer...
INSTEAD OF SPENDING its energy defending itself against student criticism, the department should invest its energy in better meeting students' needs. History concentrators suffer from a crisis in confidence...
...cause of the F.C.S.'s red ink is no mystery: the farm belt continues to suffer from its worst depression since the 1930s. Squeezed between low crop prices and falling land values, many farmers are sinking deeper and deeper into debt. By the end of 1985 borrowers were unable to make either interest or principal payments on $5.3 billion in F.C.S. loans, or 8% of its $66.6 billion portfolio...
...narrative continues to suffer unexplained breakdowns, lapsing into semi-poetic word association, noises, and archaic spelling. These breakdowns jar all the more powerfully as they occur within passages of complete textual self-control. They undermine the text's tacit claim of logic leaving a wasteland devoid of any structure, any shelter...
...other words, those people now recognized to suffer from the disease are only the tip of the iceberg. Although these statistics estimate a large population of people carrying the virus, at the present time there are no known cases of AIDS transmission by casual contact. This fact becomes significant in light of the countless hours of contact between health care workers and AIDS patients, especially those millions of person-hours of contact before doctors understood the viral nature of the disease and thus its possible dangers...