Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That is she suffers, it is her own fault for not understanding the universe. That so far as her father knows, suffering exists in order to make people think. That they do not usually think until they suffer...
Each year, about 54,000 Americans die in auto accidents, and another 2,000,000 suffer disabling injuries. Safety belts and shoulder harnesses would help reduce the carnage, if motorists wore them. According to Government surveys, only 30% of riders buckle into the belts, and a mere 5% use the harnesses. To protect people more effectively, the Department of Transportation has ordered that all 1974 model cars be equipped with some kind of passive restraint, which in effect means "air bags": huge porous plastic bags that must pop out like balloons between motorist and instrument panel. They must inflate within...
...great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions." Moreover, "we can't control inflation if everything we might do is a threat to somebody's freedom. Yet in the long run, we are all going to suffer much more than if we were slightly restricted...
...swimming pool rolling over and over in a kayak) that is both disorienting and quite funny. Mike is clearly descended from the manic protagonists embodied by Jean-Pierre Leaud in Godard's films and in Skolimowski's Le Départ. They all suffer their youth as if it were a wound...
...beneficial to all. The Times noted a "significant shift in benefits to business as against other groups in the society, especially when combined with the postponement of outlays for welfare reform and revenue sharing." The Christian Science Monitor joined the chorus and said that the higher-income classes would suffer least, "while the poor will have to postpone their hopes for financial betterment." The Monitor also declared itself "concerned by the overtones of economic isolationism" in the new policy...