Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the contract expired at 12:01 a.m. Dec. 6, it did seem as if the workers were going to suffer more than the companies. Health benefits were cut off because employers are no longer contributing to the insurance fund for the 901,000 miners, retirees and dependents. Contributions to the fund, which had already been depleted by all the wildcat strikes, are based on production and hours worked. Many miners and their families have stopped going to a doctor because they cannot afford...
...admits, before she and Linn decided to spend $35 for a toy truck coveted by their son Craig. "If you've ever seen a little boy's eyes light up like they did when he saw it in the store window," says Karen, "you'd suffer a lot yourself before denying it to him. The rest of Christmas is going to have to be love and kisses, but that's easy...
...classic Parisian restaurant Lasserre: "Don't do too much. Concentrate on one plat. One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. She or he will become lost. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster...
...economic boycott of South Africa will entail undoubted hardship for Africans...But if it is a method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing to pay. In any case, we suffer already, our children are often undernourished, and on a small scale (so far) we die at the whim of a policeman...
...legend describes the mystical visions of Muhammad as he ascended one night to the Seventh Heaven and the Throne of God. With the Angel Gabriel as his guide, the Prophet meets with Adam, Noah, Abraham and Moses. He visits paradise, with its eternally blooming gardens, and hell, where sinners suffer endless agony at the hands of demons. The 15th century illuminations that accompany the text of this holy adventure are masterworks of Middle Eastern art. Produced in Herât, capital of ancient Khurasan, the paintings flood the eye with blues, golds, reds and greens. The effect is similar...