Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah has often been criticized for enjoying a sumptuous life-style while his people suffer economic distress. His Imperial Majesty, Shahanshah (King of Kings) is, at 58, trim and fit. He and his wife, Empress Farah, 40, Crown Prince Reza, 18, and three other children, shuttle among five palaces in Iran. The Shah enjoys a good game of tennis, skiing at St. Moritz, and flying his own JetStar. He works even harder than he plays, frequently putting in 15-hour days, which are often spent conferring with a handful of trusted advisers...
...reformer's morality has always taught that the main objective of punishment is ulterior: to deter or rehabilitate. In this design, punishment should not do the one thing it says it will do-punish. It is not to make the criminal suffer, to make him feel the force of society's anger for his deed. It is surely not communal revenge...
...Israel can give to its patients. "It cost a hell of a lot of money and time to go through the appeals process, and we wouldn't do it for the purpose of delaying," he says. The hospital argued in its brief to the Court that patients' health could suffer if they heard violent arguments about unions, or if they read what he terms "scurrilous" pamphlets questioning the quality of Beth Israel's health care...
...were "not only untrue, but irresponsible literature--unlike the unions, we can only say what is true during a union campaign." Rabkin and the hospital's lawyer, Robert Chandler, argue that the NLRB was outside its area of expertise in trying to rule on whether or not patients would suffer adverse health effects from reading literature criticizing the hospital...
Granted, runners suffer some hurts from the world's random meanness along with the exotic injuries they inflict on themselves. And a few have been victimized by motorists and other malicious nonrunners. Yet nothing vindicates any image of runners as humanity's special victims -or the most exemplary form of human beings ever. At the rate they are going they may win, by more than a nose, the crown as smuggest...