Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pale hand had been stilled, its batteries worn out by too many demonstrations. "Poor fella," said David Stein, who manned the booth. "I didn't realize my poor animals would suffer...
...sense of the motivation of the students involved--that were it not for their extraordinary compassion and empathy, they would not be in their present position. This is especially true in Jennifer Granholme's case. Jennifer voluntarily involved herself in the hearings in order that Mike Anderson not suffer a heavier punishment. Such an act of friendship is rare and should be applauded, and that the Ad Board appears to have given it no consideration in its decision is very disheartening to me. Hard as I try, I cannot understand the Board's decision, and absoulutely fail...
...even if it is neither immediate nor comprehensive, is unarguably preferable to violence. The specter of revolution and race war in South Africa is horrifying, for it will inevitably be bloody and threaten to wreek one of the most productive economics in the world. Obviously, the group that would suffer most in such a confrontation is the white establishment--whites stand to lose their wealth, their country, and very possibly their lives. And yet, it is the white government that is giving Black South Africans no option but to engage in violent resistance...
Brown and Goldstein began their pioneering work while investigating severe familial hypercholesterolemia, a rare inherited disorder. Children with the disease have blood-cholesterol levels six to ten times normal and can suffer heart attacks as early as age two. By comparing skin cells from victims with those of healthy people, the two scientists traced the problem to an absence or deficiency of LDL receptors, proteins that stud the outer membranes of most cells, particularly those of the liver. Then they decoded the complex minuet that takes place between the receptor and its LDL particle. Says Baltimore: "That was important...
...worldwide effort. In India, for example, where the government insists there have not been any confirmed cases, health officials are at odds over whether to take preventive action. Dr. D.B. Bisht, director- general of Indian government health services, complains that other "high- priority programs will suffer because of pressure to divert funds from them to anti-AIDS programs. We can't afford this, since there is no evidence of AIDS." Dr. I.S. Gilada, secretary of the Indian Health Organization, considers this a head-in-the-sand attitude. "There is no special immunity to AIDS that Asians enjoy," he says...