Word: suffering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heir to these illnesses in years to come. Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky succinctly expresses the ethical dilemma. "If we enable the weak and the deformed to live and to propagate their kind," he says, "we face the prospect of a genetic twilight. But if we let them die or suffer when we can save or help them, we face the certainty of a moral twilight...
...both parents carry genes for diabetes, for example, the chances are one in four that their children will inherit an increased risk for developing the disease. If either parent actually suffers from diabetes, the odds are even worse. Members of one large South Dakota family afflicted with a rare degenerative nerve disease have been advised, for example, that the odds are 50-50 that any children they have will suffer loss of balance and coordination and die, probably of pneumonia, by age 45 (TIME...
...pointed out that the personal feud was a symptom, not a cause. We acknowledged the personal problem, but Munro should never have let it affect his running of the entire team. Will every player suffer against next year if there is one 'Gomez' on the team?" Thomas said...
...South Vietnamese] survival." Still, he in effect held out the hope that the purpose of U.S. intervention-the prevention of a Communist takeover-can be achieved. Otherwise, he said, "all over Southeast Asia, all over the Pacific, in the Mideast, in Europe, in the world, the United States would suffer a blow. And peace, because we are the greatest peace-keeping nation in the world today because of our power, would suffer a blow from which it might not recover." The doubt remained: How far and how long would Nixon have the U.S. fight to keep Saigon out of Communist...
...other major aerospace customer, the airline industry, has been set back by the general economic slump and is contracting for almost no new equipment. A confidential White House study estimates that airlines will suffer a $134 million loss on operations in 1971. Says Karl G. Harr Jr., president of the Aerospace Industries Association of America, in painful understatement: "We've got a severe weather problem...