Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Multinational Disadvantage. Exports suffer because the U.S. is the world's only large multinational manufacturing nation. During the 1950s and early '60s, when American companies were awash in capital but bothered by high-priced labor, they moved factories to countries where investment was welcome and labor was cheap. Many big firms do not export finished products because they already produce them abroad. According to a confidential State Department study, U.S. multinationals in 1970 were producing $200 billion worth of goods abroad. That was nearly five times greater than total U.S. exports and, if anything, the gap has widened...
...kitchen workers who make up a large percentage of the union membership, must work long and unpredictable hours, often during the graveyard shift between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. The union argues that in order to maintain an acceptably high standard of patient care, the workers must not suffer from overwork or excessive assignments to graveyard shift hours. If they do receive overtime assignments, they should be amply compensated, the union contends...
Normalization of relations with Viet Nam would serve to mitigate the plight of Cambodian refugees. Right now, rather than suffer further atrocities at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, thousands of Cambodian refugees have chosen possible execution and certain humiliation at the hands of their enemies, the Vietnamese. We should make normalization of relations contingent upon granting those people asylum. If the U.S. is serious about the human rights issue, it is our moral duty to accept the friendship that is obviously being offered by Viet...
...David: "I believe that you have a sensitivity about our problems in the Middle East because you are of the South, because the South is the only part of the United States and Southerners are the only people in the United States that really know what it means to suffer the tortures of the aftermath of a war in an occupation government ... and a struggle for overcoming prejudice and hatred between one race and another. I believe that has given you not only a special insight but perhaps an additional commitment to bring a resolution between two peoples who have...
...knights of the Round Table, chronicling their legendary exploits, the magical interventions of Merlin and the quest for the Holy Grail. But his treatment of the romances between Tristram and Isold, Launcelot and Guinevere reads like a medieval version of Couples. Querulous and selfabsorbed, the lovers are made to suffer the mutual incomprehension of male chauvinists and radical feminists. "Being a woman," the author says of Guinevere, "she could not understand honor and justice, for they were invented by men." The code of chivalry is resurrected in the form of propaganda. Berger is given to writing didactic speeches...