Word: sufference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's unimpeachably balanced view, but here and there some anger has flared. The Wall Street Journal said it did not condone violence, but asked, "If the 'state of nature' has returned to some big cities, can people fairly be blamed for modern vigilantism? Is it more 'civilized' to suffer threats to individual liberty from criminals, or is it an overdose of sophistication to say individuals can never resort to self-protection?" The Milwaukee Journal, also insisting that violence should not be condoned, noted that in the wake of the Goetz case a hit-and-run driver in New York...
...resettlement program: "They are coming here less than ill clothed, less than ill fed and without homes. We have had to start from scratch." In fact, some arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport carrying nothing but water pails, cherished possessions in drought-stricken Sudan and Ethiopia. Many suffer from malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, jaundice, typhus and tapeworm. "I had to go back to my textbooks to look up some of these diseases," said an Israeli doctor...
Replying to Kirkpatrick's assertions, one of the Ambassador's White House critics suggested last week that it is her personality, not her gender, that is at fault. Some women, he added, "suffer because they are cantankerous." Clearly, the feuding and the possible sexism have not ended...
...problems in the banking industry may adversely affect all Americans. Nevertheless, I derive satisfaction from watching the bankers suffer. For so many years they treated customers with disrespect. Now, with increased competition, perhaps bank officers will realize that being polite makes good business sense...
...reacts quickly with water, and can easily be absorbed through the skin or inhaled. It causes moist human tissues like lung interiors to swell and the eyes to develop cataracts. Victims can suffocate because MIC causes the lungs to fill with fluid, and they can suffer liver damage and burning of the nasal passages, throat and trachea...