Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emergency After the central government [declared the emergency], it was the states that [enforced it], and maybe they did some things that weren't right. They did arrest people whom maybe they shouldn't have. It was an exceptional situation. People did suffer, and we've said we're sorry that they suffered. Maybe it could have been better managed. But something had to be done to stop this kind of agitation at the time of very great economic crisis and shortages. It was like a wartime situation. Maybe it went on too long, but during...
...review period after it announces a decision to offer offshore leases, in order to give states time to judge the impact on their shorelines and forward any objections. Congress is expected to set up a $200 million fund later this year to compensate property owners who suffer from spills, blowouts and other accidents offshore...
...likelier prey to disease than married folk. Some examples: the coronary death rate among widows between 25 and 34 is five times that of married women in the same age group. At all ages, the divorced are twice as likely as the married to develop lung cancer or suffer a stroke. Among divorced white males, cirrhosis of the liver is seven times more common, and tuberculosis ten times more common...
...luxurious life-style when so many of his followers had to scrimp along. Filmmaker Don Conreaux, an early apostle, says that originally the yogi was "against titles, against disciples. Now he teaches only obedience to him." When Philip Hoskins quit last year, he says, Bhajan told him he would suffer 84 million reincarnations and be "reborn as a worm for betraying your teacher...
...more than half of the 4 million Americans who suffer the anguish of peptic ulcers, there was encouraging news last week: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved the general prescription use of a new drug, cimetidine. It shows greater promise than many previously acclaimed anti-ulcer drugs because it works by a different mechanism. Cimetidine reduces acid production in the stomach wall, allowing the ulcers to heal...