Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extremist" charge by indicating, in response to a newsman's question two weeks ago in California, that he would not rule out sending U.S. troops to Rhodesia if asked to do so by that African nation's white minority government (TIME, June 14). Instead of letting Reagan simply suffer the consequences of his gaffe, Ford men junked the President's California TV commercials, substituted new ones playing on the theme that "Governor Reagan could not start a war. President Reagan could." The overkill did not benefit Ford in a state he had no chance to win in any event...
Over the years, beginning in the '50s, Moon wrote and rewrote the Divine Principle. According to him, Jesus was supposed to marry an ideal wife and begin the "perfect family." He failed in this endeavor because he was crucified by his own people. For this reason Jews suffer from "collective...
Unfortunately, cliched writing and cluttered bureaucratic lingo mar even the most interesting depictions of Johnson's life. Some passages suffer from a bald style and a lack of editing...
...merit criterion. Quotas, like such discrimination, depart from this criterion, and thus are unfair to everyone--unfair to consumers and employers who lose the benefit of superior service, unfair to fellow workers who must rely on less skilled help in their jobs, unfair to most minority group members who suffer the suspicion that they did not earn their positions, and unfair to those with the best qualifications who may lose opportunities that should have been theirs...
...cattle baron with ridding his range of rustlers-Marlon Brando employs three distinct accents and wears, among other exotic items, a gorgeously fringed buckskin jacket, a coolie's hat and, finally, a grandmotherly gingham dress with a poke bonnet. Obviously, his performance in The Missouri Breaks does not suffer from an excess of discipline. Indeed, it is fair to say that it is gaudy and disruptive to the balance of forces Director Penn must surely have wanted to maintain between Brando and Jack Nicholson, the man regarded as Brando's likely successor as the best and most powerful...