Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jitters. Many Jamaican business families have established second residences abroad. Income from tourism has dropped from $120 million in 1975 to an expected $90 million this year as a result of the violence; bauxite and sugar exports, two of the country's other major foreign-exchange earners, suffer from shrunken international markets. The upshot is that Jamaica faces a staggering $1 billion national debt. Inflation is running at nearly 15% this year, while the unemployment rate on the island is 27%−and almost twice as high in West Kingston...
...protect the huge investments they have made there. Yamani fruitlessly warned his fellow oil ministers that the slowdown in Western economies made oil-burning nations simply unable to take a big OPEC price increase. "We live in a small world," he explained later. "If the rest of it suffers economically, we also suffer, no matter how high we raise the price...
Siegel was one of the 50,000 or more Americans who suffer from a little-known, and often misdiagnosed disorder called sleep apnea (literally, want of breath). During a single night, they may wake up 400 or 500 times. These interruptions are so brief, only a few seconds or so, that apnea victims are usually totally unaware of them and at a loss to explain the morning-after blahs. When these patients take their complaint to a doctor, they usually get no help. The problem is that the physician sees the patient in the daytime...
Whatever his other phobias, Hughes did not suffer from claustrophobia. His bedroom was the smallest on the penthouse floor. It measured only 15 by 17 feet ("infinite riches in a little room"), considerably smaller than the usual "master" bedroom in a low-priced tract house. Even this meager lebensraum was further cramped by stacks of newspapers and magazines...
...complexities of human relationships, brutalizes them, makes them insensitive. The point about violence is not so much that it breeds violence-though that is probably true-but that it totally desensitizes viciousness, brutality, murder, death so that we no longer actively feel the pains of the victim or suffer for the mourners or feel their grief. When the Hindenburg blew up, the reporter broke down on the radio. I can't imagine anything like that happening today. I imagine a detached, calm description of the ship going up in flames: "I do believe there will be no survivors...