Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your article "Listening In" [April 8] brought to light the bugging of auto showrooms by dealers. In all fairness, auto dealers should not have to suffer condemnation alone. The funeral industry has been known to bug casket showrooms to find out what survivors could afford to pay for a funeral service...
...almost the same, in the minds of the older generation, as giving up the Algarve. For half a millennium the territories had been part of Portugal, romantic symbols of the country's rich past. If the Portuguese should leave now, some hardliners have further insisted, the territories would suffer the same fate that befell the Congo when the Belgians left. "It would be a crime to leave, as the Belgians did," one such rightwinger argues. "The natives would just kill and eat each other...
Along with their loss of freedoms, Greeks under the new regime continue to suffer from the economic decline that started while Papadopoulos was in power. Inflation is running at an annual rate of 35%; the price of gasoline ($2.50 per gal.) is the highest in Europe, and olive oil, a Greek staple, costs nearly twice ($2 a liter) what it did last year...
Sakharov takes exception to Solzhenitsyn's emphasis on the suffering of the Russian people, as distinguished from other Soviet nationalities that have been victimized by the Kremlin. As a Russian, Solzhenitsyn was writing about what he knows best, Sakharov concedes. Yet, the physicist points out ironically, "it has been the special privilege of non-Russians to suffer forcible deportation and genocide, suppression of their national-liberation movements and oppression of their national cultures...
...principal argument for "the good death" is that so many suffer unnecessarily through lack of provision for complete care of the dying. In that case, the fact that all this discussion of euthanasia has even been made necessary seems a sad indictment of a "civilized society...