Word: suffering
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Some other Asian economies will suffer because they are closely tied to Japan, which is cutting many of its exports 10% to 25% as a result of its own troubles in buying Arab oil at today's prices. Such countries as Thailand and Malaysia buy nearly all their steel from Japanese mills, but they are considered marginal customers who are the first to be cut off if shortages limit production. South Korea is perhaps most vulnerable of all. Its economic growth rate reached a remarkable 12% in 1973, but the Seoul government predicts that will be cut in half...
...jobs in a face-saving way. But China watchers speculated that the military reshuffle was part of a broader campaign-an attempt by Chairman Mao and Premier Chou En-lai to increase the authority of the party's Central Committee at the expense of military men, who still suffer from the ancient Chinese tendency to set up warlord fiefdoms in the provinces...
PARKINSON'S DISEASE, which afflicts over a million Americans, could once be relieved only by severing certain nerve pathways deep in the cerebrum. While the operation relieved the tremors and rigidity of the disease, patients could suffer partial paralysis and loss of speech. Now, most Parkinson's victims can be relieved by a drug known as levodihydroxyphenylalanine, or L-dopa. First used successfully by George Cotzias of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, L-dopa provides a classic example of molecular chemistry at work. Normal movement depends in large part upon the action of dopamine, one of the brain...
...these countries will now receive oil "according to their actual needs," instead of only the same amounts they had purchased during the first nine months of 1973. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani added some conciliatory language. "We do not wish the nations of the world to suffer," he said. "We only intended to attract world attention to the injustice that befell the Arabs...
...newly discovered finds of natural gas from FPC regulations. Such decontrol would greatly encourage gas-producing companies to find new deposits-and according to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are potentially some 1.2 quadrillion cu. ft. of reserves in the ground waiting to be tapped. The consumer would not suffer too much immediately, since the cost of new gas would be averaged in with the cost of existing supplies. But in the long run, deregulation would send gas prices skyrocketing. At least partly for that reason, big gas producers are not beginning to exploit huge new finds in the Gulf...