Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tight-lipped, soft-spoken man by nature, Cox's relation with the press, crucial to the maintenance of his credibility, may suffer from his vaunted reticence. Cox spent most of the day of his appointment dodging reporters until he could be unveiled at a 5 p.m. press conference, and even then his only comment on the scandal he has been assigned to unravel was that "it seems very, very...
Christine was luckier than most women. Married or single, working or not, women in the U.S. suffer discrimination in the granting of credit. Banks, retail stores and credit card companies are generally reluctant to allow a married woman to open a line of credit on her own, and they often wipe out a woman's credit rating entirely when she marries or becomes widowed or divorced. Says Barbara Shack of the New York Civil Liberties Union: "Credit has become the American way of life, and women have been systematically excluded from the credit society...
...American people should now realize to whom they owe a debt of gratitude for whatever morality is left in official life. If the press ever allows itself to be stifled by a cunning President or his overzealous staff, we, the people, will be the only ones to suffer...
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a primary cause of 25,000 deaths and many of the more than 1,500,000 heart attacks and strokes that Americans suffer each year. The condition, the causes of which are not fully understood, plays a role in kidney problems and diabetes as well. In fact, doctors have long estimated that some 23 million Americans-one out of every nine-have hypertension, half of them without knowing it. Last week the Louisiana Heart Association presented evidence that even that somber estimate...
...important decision is one indication that the era of good feelings is coming to an end for the Bok administration. As long as President Bok continues to make such decisions of general concern unilaterally, this University will enjoy less and less the good will of its members and will suffer increasingly more from the splintering of the Harvard community into a number of small interest groups...