Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suffer Along. More than by anything else, though, the shape of the recession from here on and the timing of the turn-around will be determined by what happens to inventories-the unsold goods and supplies that businessmen have on hand. Although production is dropping, it will be some time before business can work off those inventories; Chrysler, for example, has a four-month supply of unsold cars on lots and in showrooms. Sometimes the lag involved in pulling inventories into line with sales produces what is known as a V-shaped recession: production plunges until inventories are sold, then...
...argument back and forth about statistics, it is important to keep a few basic facts about the condition of farmworkers in California in sight. Farmworkers earn only about 50 per cent of the median state income; over 20 per cent live below the poverty line (1970 U.S. Census). They suffer lethal accident rates 300 per cent above the national average (National Safety Council). They often have dangerous pesticides sprayed on them while working (U.S. Labor Department, Special Review Staff), and 80 per cent suffer at least one symptom of pesticide poisoning (California state study, reported in Fresno Bee, 9/26/69...
During a recent television interview, David O'Connell, chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, issued a grim warning. Because of the "total indifference" of the British public to the "terrible war in Ireland," he said, the British "will suffer the consequences." O'Connell sanctimoniously promised that the Provisional I.R.A. would strike only at "economic, military, political and judicial targets." Last week the Irish militants made good their threat, but tragically they chose a target of a different and more innocuous sort...
Significantly, the Palestinians have returned to and demanded recognition from the same two institutions that in 1948 disenfranchised them and took custody of their cause: the United Nations and the Arab governments. It is an eloquent statement about the capacity of a people to suffer, endure, survive and regain their sense of national worth...
...tiller sees them? Humbug. Cant. The special form of dishonesty that betrays itself as lack of style. Irving Howe once complained that if Jesus were to deliver the Sermon on the Mount tomorrow, "Dwight Macdonald would write that while 'Mr. Christ makes some telling points' they suffer from syntactical confusion and 'a woolly, pretentious style.' " Macdonald's answer: "Were the Sermon woolly," that would be "my reaction, and I should be right, since in that case the Sermon would not be the great moral message it is but a botch, and not only in style...