Word: suffering
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Elastic Uses. Such a presumption of guilt conflicts with modern U.S. legal concepts. Yet when a person is booked for vagrancy, it is, in effect, up to him to prove his innocence, and for the drunks and down-and-outers who suffer the great majority of vagrancy arrests, this can be difficult. Since vagrancy is regarded in all states as either a petty offense or misdemeanor, defendants are usually given no chance to consult a lawyer and prepare a defense. They are summarily tried by police courts and magistrates in procedures that often last only seconds...
...Shriver called on Boston College and Wesleyan University seniors to aid the economically poor; University of Chicago Chancellor George Beadle urged his own graduates to help reduce "cultural poverty"; Senate Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey said, at the University of Massachusetts, that those who really need help are people who suffer racial discrimination...
...supporting proposals to reconvene the trade meeting every three years and to set up a small secretariat at Geneva, they moved toward creating what someday could become a new trading organization for the world. They also agreed to "recommend" that the World Bank grant loans to countries that suffer from commodity-price declines, and that the industrial nations set a foreign aid goal of 1% of their "national income," that is, the sum of their personal income and corporate profits...
...passenger-car drivers. A similar report by Maine, published in April, showed a fatality rate for persons in compacts (defined as cars under 3,000 lbs.) that is 51 times as great as that of full-size cars. Studies of the California Highway Patrol found that small-car occupants suffer a far higher rate of injury or death in accidents. "Compact and foreign cars," says Michigan Highway Commissioner John C. Mackie, "may be socially desirable in some parts of the country, but they are a nuisance. Less weight and less acceleration make a car less safe...
President Lowell, welcoming the freshman members of the Class of 1914, urged the students to avoid the prevailing attitude of indifference and uninvolvement. "Two things men suffer most from in college are a swelled head and a contracted heart...