Word: suffering
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...well. It is doubtful that white parents have so strong a right to choose a specific public school for their children, but it is even more doubtful that they should be forced by law to have their offspring bused where their safety is endangered or where they will demonstrably suffer along educational lines. That happens less often than alarmists contend. When it does, both whites and blacks have some justification for abandoning the public schools. A far better solution, obviously, would be to work together for better schools everywhere...
Concern, outrage and protest are mounting among the Japanese almost as rapidly as the thickening air. According to a poll conducted by the Japanese government last year, 52 per cent of the residents in the Tokyo and Osaka metropolitan areas were convinced they suffer from the effects of pollution. And a third of those polled blamed the pollution on the weak measures taken by the central and local governments...
...effect of economic uncertainty upon stock prices has been magnified by doubts about the likely impact of post-freeze controls on business. Many businessmen worry that the controls will hold prices down more than wages, and that profits will suffer as a result. That is the exact reverse of the anxiety expressed by labor leaders, who fear that the controls will restrict wages more than prices, and that profits will soar while workers are hurt...
High among the countries that would be hurt is Japan. At the end of September, Japan's reserve assets amounted to $13.4 billion, of which $12 billion was held in dollars and a puny $697 million in gold. West Germany would also stand to suffer. At latest count, its reserves totaled $18.1 billion, of which $12 billion was in foreign exchange, mostly dollars, and only $4.4 billion in gold. Switzerland, too, would come out somewhat behind. By latest count, it has $3 billion in gold and almost $4 billion in dollars...
...probability of conception from a single act of unprotected coitus is between one in 25 and one in 50; thus at least 20 pregnancies should have occurred among Dr. Kuchera's 1,000 patients. But not one became pregnant. Nor did any suffer serious side effects from the drug, though some experienced nausea and intermittent vomiting for a few days...