Word: suffering
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Lathière hopes the Airbus will redress an imbalance that has long irritated Europeans. Says he: "Europe buys 25% of the world's planes, but as manufacturers we get only 2% of the business. The U.S. plane industry will not suffer if its share of the world sales declines somewhat to 75%." Despite the burst of business for Airbus, Boeing has received 229 orders and options for the 767 and the 757. Moreover, before it made its Airbus buy, Lufthansa placed a $1.2 billion order for 32 Boeing 737s and 24 options, the largest plane deal ever made...
OPEC'S price rises do heavy damage. Third World countries that do not process oil will suffer grievously from slower growth, higher inflation and wider trade deficits. Similar penalties will be inflicted on Western Europe and Japan. The U.S., because it is the biggest customer for OPEC crude, will suffer the brunt of the latest increase. The effects will be felt just as signs of the long awaited economic slowdown are appearing...
...tried to keep this thing from happening. But I now see it's the will of sovereign Being that we lay down our lives in protest against what's been done. If they come after our children, and we give them our children, then our children will suffer forever. [Cultists returning from the airstrip tell Jones that Congressman Ryan has been killed...
...nuclear plants safe? The answer depends on the definition of "safe." If it means accident-proof, then the answer, as applied to anything from a bicycle to a steel mill, is no. A nuclear plant cannot blow up like an atomic bomb. A plant could, however, suffer a "meltdown" if it loses the water used to cool its uranium core, overheats, ruptures the core's container and releases a deadly cloud of radioactive gases. In the event of such an accident, people close to the plant would die quickly, while others, living as far as a couple of hundred...
...Huskies were just about the only thing at the Arena that didn't suffer from some kind of power failure last night as they shut out the Harvard women's hockey team 4-0 in the opening round of the affirmative-action version of the first two Mondays in February at the Garden...