Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Citing a 1982 study of Woburn residents' medical histories conducted by two SPH doctors, the families claim that through the negligence of the W. R. Grace Company, the water became contaminated with a known carcinogen, causing the residents to suffer "direct adverse effects and an increased risk of illness and disease...
...called an "arch-artist" by George Bernard Shaw and "that sovereign of insufferables" by Ambrose Bierce. In The God of Mirrors, Oscar Wilde qualifies for both titles, reducing every crisis to an epigram. Some of them are prophetic. In Dorian Gray, "the bad will suffer. The good will be rewarded. That . . . is what fiction means." Some are merely contrary: "It is always an advantage not to have received a good education." As Wilde arcs over London, he decides that the difference between true love and caprice is that caprice lasts a little longer, and that is his undoing. His infatuation...
More importantly, we students, future students, our renowned professors, and the country as a whole will suffer because Harvard students decided in their dining halls that they are willing to take a lower level of education for the moral divestment of South African stock...
This is also the only segment of the film to suffer from glaring historical inaccuracies. A liberal use of creative license gives the audience the distinct impression not only that Jane must have been on the throne for quite longer than a week and two days, but also that many decrees of substance were put into operation under her personal super vision. The sad, unromantic truth of those nine days is that they constituted a reign in name only, fraught as they were with civil strife and disorder, not to mention differences of opinion among those directly manipulating the young...
...want to remain on the street, but there is a general lack of consensus as to why they are there in the first place. A study published by the United Community Planning Corporation of the Massachusetts Association of Mental Health claims that 83 percent of all homeless people either suffer from drug dependency, are mentally ill or retarded, or suffer from a character disorder. However, Steve Kalar '88, co-director of the homeless shelter of the University Lutheran Church, thinks that the figures are inflated, "a by-product of the fact that the study was conducted by psychologists." Blanchard also...