Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students who suffer most from that myth are the premeds. Contrary to the spirit of a liberal arts education, premedical students, striving for one of the precious spots in a medical school, devote more than one-third of their college educations to preparing for medicine. The rigorous requirements, as Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine and Science Allan Brandt puts it, "have polluted undergraduate education...
...students who suffer most from that myth are the premeds. Contrary to the spirit of a liberal arts education, premedical students, striving for one of the precious spots in a medical school, devote more than one-third of their college educations to preparing for medicine. The rigorous requirements, as Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine and Science Allan Brandt puts it, "have polluted undergraduate education...
...million pairs for the first two years of a five-year quota plan. Such a program would have stepped on plenty of toes. Footwear prices would probably have risen by as much as 15% in the first year. While protectionist measures may save some jobs, consumers almost always suffer because the limit on supplies drives up prices. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week released a study showing that restrictions on the imports of autos, sugar and clothing last year cost U.S. consumers more than $14 billion, or $228 per family...
...Over two decades, former Editor Thomas Winship had turned the Globe from a provincial, flatly written paper into a nationally respected, crusading publication that won eleven Pulitzers. An open, gregarious man, Winship nurtured scores of talented writers, who came to look upon him as Father Globe. Any successor would suffer in comparison, but Janeway, the paper's former Sunday managing editor, seemed especially resented. An editor of the Atlantic Monthly for eleven years before joining the Globe in 1978 as editor of its Sunday magazine, Janeway was considered an interloper by many longtime staffers and too austerely intellectual to lead...
Dour, deliberate and repressed residents, both Lutheran and Roman Catholic, suffer dangerous guilt complexes. Just as the middle Olson boy reaches out to examine the medallion between the breasts of a sultry waitress from Mom and Dad's Cafe, Lake Wobegon's four-story grain elevator explodes, showering the town with chunks of timber...