Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasonable agreement with us? No! So the conference was doomed before it began. These doubts kept nagging at my brain. I became more and more convinced that our pride and dignity would be damaged if we went ahead with the meeting as though nothing had happened. Our prestige would suffer, especially in the Third World. After all, we were the injured party. We simply could not go to Paris pretending everything was fine...
...government leader should keep in mind exactly what sort of destruction we're capable of today. He should be aware of the losses his own country will suffer if, God willing, he were able to destroy his enemies. There are those who don't seem able to get it into their heads that in the next war the victor will be barely distinguishable from the vanquished. A war between, the Soviet Union and the United States would almost certainly end in mutual defeat...
...coldest, darkest days of the global fuel shortage last winter, Americans could console themselves that the long-ailing dollar was making a valiant recovery. Money traders were eagerly buying dollars because they thought the U.S. would suffer less from the oil squeeze than other countries, and because they were impressed by the fact that two painful dollar devaluations had swung the U.S. trade balance back into the black. The turnaround proved shortlived; in recent months the dollar's value has sunk enough to wipe out almost all the gains posted during the fuel crisis...
...Giscard maintains his momentum and outruns Chaban, the Gaullist Party will suffer a serious and perhaps fatal setback. "Then we will bury General de Gaulle for a second time," says Gaullist Minister of the Interior Jacques Chirac. In the runoff, as the sole candidate of the center and right, Giscard would be favored to top Mitterrand. The current campaign, however, has had several surprises. Thus, no one rules out the long-odds possibility that Mitterrand may just get a majority on May 5, winning the presidency and making the Giscard-Chaban duel on the right an empty exercise...
Worldwide sales of Volkswagenwerk AG have slumped 21.6% so far this year, and officials openly predict that the company in 1974 will suffer the first full-year loss in its history. (Profits in 1973 were $40 million; at their peak in 1966 they totaled $151 million.) Last week Volkswagen closed down most of its West German plants and gave 45,000 workers a two-week furlough with partial...