Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owners, not the tenants who stand to suffer from housing problems in Cambridge, Clinton claims. "I hear some complaints that small owners just aren't making it. Seven or eight say that they are going to convert [to condominiums]--energy costs...
...isolated and ostracized will mean loneliness. Loneliness is an enemy of a person and of a nation. It makes you do funny things, stupid things-this we will have to guard against. But we can hibernate-and fairly long too. All of us, black and white, will suffer. But we will not be the only ones...
West Germany and France would also suffer a serious, if lesser, loss of trade. But dozens of smaller countries closer to South Africa would also be affected. Gabon, for instance, buys meat from South Africa; Zambia buys everything from mining equipment to canned goods. Alternative markets are distant-and thus more expensive. At least four U.N. members -Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique-are heavily dependent on neighboring South Africa not only for trade but for communication...
Brainard should know. The St. Paul surgeon is one of millions of Americans who chronically suffer from that most severe of headaches: the migraine (from the Greek for "half skull").-Virtually everyone has an occasional headache, and it can usually be treated by nothing more sophisticated than aspirin. But the migraine is different. This violent cranial storm was for a long time medicine's stepchild. Few drugs were useful against it, and doctors could offer little help in relieving...
...Goyles, then, is whether or not the virtues of the score can make up for the sins of the book. For most musicals that does not pose a problem; audiences want big production numbers and catchy tunes to hum as they leave the theater, and are normally willing to suffer the inanities of a trite romantic plot to get what they want. The operative word is "entertainment," and a strong score can usually bring the musical message home...