Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense and prosecution attorneys. By week's end Sirica had given preliminary approval to only twelve possible jurors; he would need at least 45 if the opposing attorneys exercise all of the peremptory challenges he has allowed. Many prospective jurors have been dismissed because they would suffer unduly if sequestered from family or business duties for the full length of the trial, which could go on past Christmas...
...producing countries suffer even the slightest defeat," he said in 1971, "it would be the death knell for OPEC." If a united front of oil consumers can be created, the cartel could suffer that initial defeat. This could hasten the day when OPEC shares the fate of history's other cartels-disunity as each of its members seeks to secure its own favored deal with customers...
HARVARD-COLUMBIA--New Lion coach Bill Campbell is still looking for his first win. Next year, maybe. As for now, the poor fellow must suffer the trials and tribulations of coaching a pack of losers. Another dull rout. Harvard 40, Columbia...
...they monitor the stresses inexorably building up in the earth along the San Andreas Fault, seismologists agree that California could at almost any time suffer another major earthquake, perhaps even more serious than San Francisco's 1906 disaster. Scientists hesitate to predict exactly when or where the big quake will come, but that has not deterred two young astronomers, John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann. In a new book, The Jupiter Effect (Walker; $7.95), which has generally been treated seriously by the press and the networks, they prophesy that a major quake will devastate the Los Angeles area...
...newspaperwoman (Winston-Salem Journal, Baltimore Sun) who specializes in industrial hazards and environment. Her research ranges more widely than Brodeur's. She tracks down cases of beryllium disease among workers who handle that high-strength, lightweight metal. They not only develop respiratory symptoms similar to asbestosis but suffer from heart and liver damage that produces a 30% mortality rate. She deals with lung damage from such new chemicals as tolylene diisocyanate, widely used in foam rubber products; nerve diseases caused by various new solvents used in the printing industry; damage to nerves and organs from carbon disulfide among workers...