Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arthurs, working as she does in an administrative hierarchy that is almost exclusively male. The optimism she often expresses about her own ability to change things at Harvard is based from the start on her ungrudging recognition that things here could certainly do with a little changing. "This institution suffers from a basic failure to believe top jobs can be filled by women," she says, as she prepares to take on her second top administrative post in three years here. "I think Harvard has a long way to go in terms of taking women very, very seriously. That's true...
...nations from the industrial states and the newly rich oil producers. It will renew his call for a world food reserve of 60 million tons to provide a cushion against crop failures. To solve balance of payments problems, it will suggest giving International Monetary Fund loans to countries that suffer trade shortfalls. In the face of opposition from key Cabinet members like Treasury Secretary William Simon, Moynihan is expected to announce that the U.S., for the first time, may be willing to tamper with traditional free-market mechanisms by entering into commodity pricing agreements with producer nations...
...lungs (pulmonary embolism), with possibly fatal results. The Pill may also cause strokes. That indictment originated with two teams of Britain's most eminent epidemiologists, now at the University of Oxford. The danger has since been widely confirmed, although the risk that any particular woman will suffer any of these severe effects is statistically small. The latest indictment is based on two later studies by essentially the same research teams...
...their people live in vulnerable adobe-type, tile-roofed homes that collapse easily during tremors. And the country shudders through a great number of earthquakes, apparently because of the northward push of the Indian plate against the Eurasian plate. Says Press: "It is probably the one country that could suffer a million dead in a single earthquake...
...examine its shared optimism about the future. Consider that moment of new beginnings in 1945-46, when millions of veterans returned home from World War II to resume peacetime living. For many, the G.I. Bill made possible the previously elusive dream of a college education. The economy did not suffer the grave postwar slump that experts had forecast. Despite gathering doubts about Russia, most Americans had an optimistic faith in the twin security of their nuclear monopoly and the new United Nations, where the big powers would work together to guarantee the peace. That was a brief, sunny interval indeed...