Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marrakesh, as in Aswan, the deposed monarch appeared to be slowly adjusting to events. He still seemed to suffer periods of uncertainty and depression, but insisted that he was "relaxed and well" and in no need of a major medical checkup. Between scheduled activities, he read newspapers, listened to radio reports and took long walks...
...Iranian oil, as is Israel, whose oil needs the U.S. has pledged to fulfill in the event of shortages. If the flow of Iranian oil remains stopped up for very long, the industrial nations will have to begin sharing the still available supplies. If that happens, the U.S. could suffer much more than a 5% drop in its normal supply and availability of crude...
...fine by Jimmy Carter. And apparently, so is the higher unemployment rate his in-house economists boldly predict for the year's end if Carter's proposed budget cuts and ever-higher interest rates come to pass. It is more than a little ironic that the people who suffer the most from high inflation--the poor, the jobless, the sick and the elderly--would bear the burden of a shrinking federal budget. With interest-group politics at its zenith, the weak and disorganized would, as usual, lose out. According to a Prentice-Hall estimate, for example, the recently passed changes...
Harvard has tried to teach me otherwise, but it has not succeeded. I still believe that a sliding scale of ethical values can only slide so far before it runs into unpleasant human realities: that people who lose their jobs do not eat, that people who lose their homes suffer, that people who are forced to live under despotic governments cannot enjoy even the most basic human liberties. But Harvard, for all its professed concern with proper behavior, does not act as if it recognizes these facts. Tied up in professional ethics, it ignores human ethics...
...themselves with a few days of holiday they had not expected. Governor James Thompson, after appealing to President Carter to declare 22 northern Illinois counties a disaster area, took a vacation - to Florida. After two days of being roasted by the local press, he flew back into Chicago to suffer along with his constituents as they received a familiar forecast: more snow, ice and freezing rain...