Word: sufference
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...bars for a dozen years before being freed in 1977. Though Zhang is so wealthy he can afford a car, the ultimate luxury, he still feels ostracized. "People look down on me because I was in jail for political reasons," he says, perhaps ignoring the fact that some may suffer from what the Chinese call "red-eyed disease," or jealousy...
...relative safety of funds, a select breed plays the hazardous game called risk arbitrage. These daredevils buy stocks in companies that they think are vulnerable to a takeover. If one of these firms does indeed receive a merger bid, the arbitragers stand to make huge profits, but they can suffer staggering losses if no deal materializes. In 1985, arbitragers boosted the price of shares in dozens of companies before they were acquired, including General Foods, RCA, Revlon and Richardson-Vicks...
...microbes making a park of me." The critic does not always twinkle; even Eugene O'Neill is regarded without awe because "no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously." As this rare and delightful scrapbook proves, O'Neill's was one affliction Benchley would never suffer...
Even with its overall record of safety excellence, flying by its very nature can arouse fear. Passengers must surrender control of their fate to the plane and its pilot once the aircraft leaves the ground. And while a driver may suffer only minor injury or even walk away from the scene of a car wreck, air crashes are generally fatal...
...their neighbors. For an assessment of what this change will mean for the economies of Spain and Portugal, TIME invited Jose Luis Leal, Spain's Minister of the Economy in 1979 and 1980, to the Madrid meeting of its European Board of Economists. His conclusion: Spain and Portugal might suffer a few short-run shocks from E.G. membership but would ultimately benefit. Leal admitted, though, that the two nations were "jumping into the unknown...