Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grave Questions. Unquestionably, rationing would generate wide spread inequities. Lower-income motorists would be penalized because they tend to drive inefficient old cars that get poor gasoline mileage. Residents of rural and suburban areas would suffer more than city dwellers, because they are not served by adequate mass transit systems. A network of local rationing boards would probably be created to deal with hardship claims. But there would be much bureaucratic adjudication of minute details of Americans' private and business lives. By FEA'S estimate, rationing would require the creation of a massive bureaucracy of as many...
...takes some special qualities: the ability to laugh at oneself, the balance that allows one to enjoy great victories without being arrogant and suffer great defeats without crumbling. The job of society, rather than fitting aspirants into Superman's suit, is to pay close attention to the clothes they actually wear Rhetoric is no substitute for record, speechwriters for substance, charisma for character...
People who suffer from recurrent cold sores are constantly on the lookout for a way of curing these harmless but unsightly excrescences. The Medical Letter, an independent publication written by physicians for physicians, suggests that one treatment may be worse than the affliction...
...compelled by higher prices to reduce their prodigious waste of energy. But if the program fails, the consequences could be dire indeed. The $16 billion in rebates and tax credits might be too weak to jolt the economy out of its alarming slumpflation; in that case, the nation could suffer a prolonged agony of unemployment rates higher than any since before World War II. In addition, the higher prices for oil and natural gas that Ford plans could restore the raging inflation that is only now beginning to relax its debilitating grip...
Principal Victims. Paradoxically, U.S.-U.S.S.R. trade will probably suffer little from the Kremlin cancellation. Existing contracts between the Soviet government and American firms are likely to remain in effect. Nor are new contracts precluded by the nullification of the trade accord. Many analysts expect that the present $1 billion U.S.-U.S.S.R. annual trade volume will not be significantly reduced. As for the technology that the Soviets require, Tass has already indicated that Moscow is still looking toward the West, "not excepting the most economically powerful Western nation -the U.S.A." The Kremlin may now reckon that Congress, discouraged by its inability...