Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another $1.5 billion will go toward paying for welfare, Medicaid and other programs borne by the state's 58 counties. Thus fears that poor people would suffer drastically may not materialize. The legislature did decree, however, that there be no increase in welfare payments unless public employees also get a pay hike. Brown has already asked for a freeze on state salaries. Since it would seem to be political suicide for lower-level officials to vote increases for themselves at a time when the taxpayers are screaming so loudly for less spending, welfare payments probably will be frozen...
Such injuries as girls and women do suffer can often be blamed on improper condition or coaching. Girls are more loose-jointed than boys, making them somewhat more susceptible to injuries like dislocated shoulders. Women can also have problems with what is known as the "overload phenomenon"-putting too much force on a muscle, tendon or ligament. But that can be avoided with proper training. Says Dr. C. Harmon Brown, director of Student Health Services at California State University in Hayward: "Four years ago it was not O.K. for girls to participate in sports, and they were forced...
...main value of the laboratory test, says Salmon, is that it can help the physician plan individual courses of treatment. For example, only 20% of people with cancer of the colon or rectum respond to the drug fluorouracil; the other 80% suffer needlessly from the drug's toxic effects. The new technique may have another benefit: it could be used to evaluate new anticancer drugs without endangering cancer patients...
...good of the city; when he asked for their public support, they recoiled in horror. Yet conservatives were frequently no better, writes Simon. "As is so often the case in our society, when the liberals orchestrate a nationwide uproar over good vs. evil, all those defined as evil suffer an acute loss of nerve...
...also doubt there are too many with the nerve to charge his prices, either. It's the classic hang-up: this place has a good thing going, and the owner knows it. But it's worth it to brave the crowd, shell out a couple of bucks, and suffer through the interminably slow service, just to sink your teeth into one of those classic burgers. At least once in a while...