Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth man is being eliminated; it would oblige TWA to give pilot training to any flight engineers who seek it, including those temporarily laid off. The agreement promised the engineers' union, fearful that it will be swallowed up by the Air Line Pilots Association, that it "will not suffer an increased risk of loss of its representational rights" by adopting the agreement. But it also aimed at an ultimate merger by setting up a joint Government committee with the unions to "review the possibilities of merger of the representational functions of the two organizations...
...defeat the Reds in Laos by arming and training General Phoumi's army-but Phoumi failed. The Pentagon remains reluctant to commit U.S. armed forces to a landlocked, roadless and rugged terrain for an endless guerrilla war against Communists from China and North Viet Nam. Souvanna may well suffer the fate of other non-Communist leaders who have tried to govern in conjunction with the Reds and have lost their countries to Communist subversion...
Political Spectrum. Whatever the un rest that is disturbing the Franco regime, it has so far not benefited Spain's splintered political parties, which are hardly parties in the usual sense. They operate in a vacuum, with no means of reaching the Spanish people, and they suffer from that fierce individualism that turns any three Spaniards meeting on a street corner into a new political faction...
Education Minister Eccles (Winchester and Oxford) warned, however, that English may yet suffer the same fate as Latin, the world's first truly international tongue, which became fragmented into French. Italian and Spanish after the fall of the Roman Empire. "The danger is very real that English will break down into Oxford English, New York English, Australian. Russian, Chinese English and so forth." Exploring examples of conflicting usages, Eccles pointed out that "flat" means "puncture" in New York and "apartment" in London, wondered "what to do about the young English gentlemen who call a donkey an arse...
...well as sail the Atlantic. At that point, another agency of the British government objected. Air Minister Peter Thorneycroft vetoed the idea on the ground that the government-owned British Overseas Airways Corp. was already losing money ($36.4 million in 1961) on the route, and would suffer more from the added competition...