Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hussein still held his throne, but it seemed less secure than ever. And he was not the only one to suffer. The disturbances pointed up a serious ideological split between Habash's extreme leftist outfit and Arafat's bigger, more moderate Fatah. To make matters worse, the twelve biggest fedayeen groups range from Maoist to moderate in their political views; unless they can achieve something more than paper unity, their quarrels will surely bring more violence to the Middle East. Last week, for example, observers in Amman insisted that they had seen guerrilla groups shooting at one another...
...unconcerned about its deficits because it has discovered that it can get away with a kind of "monetary imperialism." The position of the dollar as the standard of value against which all other currencies are measured enables the U.S. to escape the consequences that other countries suffer if they consistently overspend abroad. In any other country, a parade of deficits comparable to those the U.S. has run would force devaluation of the currency. Devaluation of the dollar, the currency that more than any other has been considered as good as gold, would bring such chaos that it has been considered...
...million or more Americans, most of them over 50, suffer from Parkinson's disease, once generally known as "shaking palsy." The mysterious nerve disorder causes tremors, muscle rigidity, involuntary movements, slurred speech and may eventually disable the victim. Until recently it was virtually untreatable. Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cautiously approved L-dopa, the first drug shown to be effective in a majority of cases of Parkinsonism. As a result, L-dopa, although subject to unprecedented safeguards because of its undesirable side effects, now becomes available for general prescription...
...drug's effects." They will have to compile data on the reported effects of patients under treatment, and on the results of post-mortem examinations of those who die of Parkinson's disease. There is good reason for this caution. Nearly all patients treated with L-dopa suffer some side effects, among which loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting are considered minor. More serious are changes in blood pressure and the white-blood-cell system and, paradoxically, involuntary muscle movements of a different type. (Suggestions that the medication dangerously increases libido are not taken seriously by responsible medical...
...Bouton is ready to suffer the consequences for saying that baseball stars are human. After his meeting with Kuhn last week, he reflected: "I figure I've cut my career short by at least three years. If you're a marginal player who's done what I've done, you've got a fine chance to be cut from the squad." Or cut down. "I expect to be punched out one of these days. It's just a matter of time, I suppose...