Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gold bill. However, since both houses of Congress will hold hearings on the bill before voting, it probably cannot become law until well into March. Considering the uncertainty and ill will needlessly caused by the delay so far, that leaves plenty of time for the fragile monetary system to suffer yet another round of spasms...
...responsibility which was prescribed (in the Bender Report of 1950) of assigning Sophomores in Economics, English, Government, History and Social Relations to tutors associated with the Houses in which they live. President Lowell would have been quick to level this criticism himself, since the Houses in their present situation suffer from the shipwreck of half his scheme for their success. His idea of them was closely connected with his plan that the core of teaching at Harvard should be a tutorial system and that it should be centered in them. As he foresaw it, a student in a House would...
...closely with men and their desires. If worst came to logical worst, we could all turn into Norman Mailers, merely switching sexes within the context of The Prisoner of Sex: "He could love a woman...but he would not be happy to help her if his work should suffer, no, not unless her work were as valuable...
...staff members and 105 clerical employees who work for Kissinger in the White House do not always find their boss so funny. While secretaries suffer silently under his urgent demands and work devotedly, about one-quarter of the aides have left since he set up shop. Constantly lashing his staff to perform "meticulously"?a favorite word?Kissinger both inspires and exasperates. Incapable of delegating his vast authority, he edits memos mercilessly, spares no feelings if he feels that a report falls short of his own high standards, quickly loses patience with mediocre work. "He is the Vince Lombardi...
...really skipping all the stages a rock band goes through," Jeff said. "Some bands spend years backing up other bands at concerts before they put out an album. We're kind of jumping to the top right away. In some ways I think we suffer...