Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first move in the best-of-24-game match. Spassky appeared but instead of drawing lots he stalked out of the room without explanations. Later he declared that he was "insulted" by his opponent's delaying tactics, that Fischer had "jeopardized his moral right to play" and must suffer some "just punishment before there is a hope of holding the match." Spassky, who maintained a cool, detached air throughout most of the negotiations, said: "I am the world champion. Now it is I who shall determine when or whether the match shall begin." Moaned F.I.D.E. President Max Euwe...
...York stevedoring companies into a contract guaranteeing longshoremen 2,080 hours of pay each year, whether or not there is work to be done. Says a New York-based ship operator: "The union contracts are negotiated between the dock workers and the stevedoring companies; but the companies that suffer the most are the shipping firms that have invested a lot in facilities in New York. Higher costs simply drive their business away...
Both Patricia Falkenhain as the good-hearted but overwhelmingly managerial Dolly Gallagher Levi, who schemes to put Vandergelder's life in order and his money in circulation, and Robert Ferringer as Vandergelder himself, turn in polished performances. However, they too suffer from the production's overall tone and from a too-hurried pace (perhaps aggravated by opening night uncomfortableness...
...cruel and unusual. Douglas, White and Stewart all felt that the death sentences in the murder and two rape cases before the court had been applied "wantonly and freakishly," to use Stewart's words, because only a tiny minority of defendants convicted of similar offenses suffer the same fate. They left open the possibility, however, that a law would be constitutional if it called for capital punishment for certain kinds of crime (like the murder of a policeman) and if it was uniformly applied...
...permanent residents, living in Cambridge with Harvard and MIT is somewhat like sleeping between two elephants--whenever they sprawl their Cambridge bedfellows suffer. It is said there was once a competition between Harvard and MIT to be the first to swallow Central Square MIT won. Cambridge citizens are losing. They pay higher property taxes as more land goes to tax-free universities, and higher rents as less land is available for housing. Harvard's new Administration has promised to be more careful where it tramples. After buying the Hotel Continental earlier this year to use as a student dormitory...