Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adjacent suite room however did suffer damage...
...took office, he offers at least partial refutation of the myth that the presidency is a man-killing job. As Lyndon Johnson used to observe, the presidency, despite all its responsibilities, also means that the man need never wait in line at airports, get snarled in traffic or suffer the thousand other minor outrages that age mortals who are less cosseted and curried...
Different Forms. "The Chief of State is like the flag," says ABC's Smith. "You have to be deferential. The head of Government is nothing but a politician, and you can be rough and relentless with him. We combine the two in one person-the President-and suffer all the psychological stresses usual when you adopt two contradictory attitudes." Smith prefers the British system: "You bow and scrape to the monarch, but you raise hell with the Prime Minister...
...last month's law prohibiting a rail strike until March 1. Congress and the Administration also created a quasi-governmental body, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., to take over intercity passenger trains, starting May 1. It will relieve private lines of the $200 million annual loss they suffer from passenger service they would prefer not to supply...
Although Jean Mayer might have filled the big brick house behind Emerson Hall, his obituary isn't going to suffer if he has to stay on Beacon Hill. As we were looking at his father's portrait and the French sabers opposite it on the wall, Dr. Mayer said to me, "A man has to know where he comes from in order to know where he wants to go. Otherwise he will live from moment to moment, and instead of being a statesman he will be a politician, instead of a scientist, a technician." I was sure that Jean Mayer...