Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late one night in 1974, George Corley Wallace mused in his mansion about whether he should seek re-election as Governor of Alabama. A reporter turned to the perennial candidate, paralyzed from the waist down. Why would he want to suffer through more campaigning? In a rare moment of humility, Wallace answered softly, "If I didn't hold office, how could I live? You know I don't have any money. What could...
...doubt in something in which nothing is clear." But others felt that the defendant had got what she deserved. The reaction of James Strauch, a New York accountant, was typical: "After she was kidnaped, I suspect they persuaded her to join up, and she went along. Now she will suffer the consequences, just as anyone else would under the same circumstances...
...Atlanta, which is 60% black, crime had followed a grimly familiar pattern. Most violence occurred in largely black areas, where the city's largely white police force was least effective. Eaves, now 41, took on his $34,000-a-year job with a simple conviction: "Blacks suffer the most from crime, and if given a chance to relate to the police, they will help fight...
...system of floating-exchange rates in 1973 in the hope of ending the disruptive crises that had become almost routine with rigidly fixed currency values. But the floating-rate system-under which currencies pretty much find their own value in the market-is proving that it too can suffer, if not a crisis, then a period of turmoil. The troubles are pallid by past standards: central banks are spending only millions, rather than billions, to defend their countries' currencies, and no exchange offices are refusing to accept tourists' foreign money. Nonetheless, some currencies are not so much floating...
...willing to accept, but this simply isn't the case. The Crimson may not be Top Twenty material, but it certainly isn't Ivy basement material, either, and being in the cellar of the Ivy League in basketball is one of the greater embarrassments which any team could suffer...