Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...society, like an individual family, cannot live beyond its means indefinitely. In fact, if it wants to prosper and grow, it cannot even live at its means. It must save and invest for the future. We have not been doing that, and unless this changes we will suffer for it, even if the suffering takes the form of slow stagnation rather than some bloodcurdling cataclysm...
...flamboyance of personality, that itch toward originality that distinguishes this blood-soaked century. Instead, he offered his words in the service of a long tradition, from Vergil to Dante to Donne to the Puritans among his ancestors. He saw himself, at times, as a modern Aeneas, compelled to struggle, suffer and carry old burdens to a new synthesis of civilization. He knew he was courting failure. He mocked his own earnestness in verse: "How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!/ With his features of clerical...
...something else as well. Within its instructional code was a "time bomb" linked to each computer's internal clock and set to go off on the second Friday in May -- Friday the 13th, the 40th anniversary of the State of Israel. Any machine still infected on that date would suffer the instant loss of all its files. Fortunately, the virus was eradicated well before May 13, and the day passed without incident...
...open romance with a younger woman has already earned him a national tongue-lashing, but there seems to be no end to the abuse Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou is willing to suffer in the name of love. While in London awaiting open-heart surgery, Papandreou, 69, announced last week that he would seek a divorce from Margaret, his American-born wife of 37 years, when he returns to Athens. In Britain the Greek leader has been photographed holding hands with Olympic Airways Flight Attendant Dimitra Liani...
Bush called Dukakis' plan "a prescription for financial disaster." Yet, the U.S. treasury would suffer no net loss from the plan. Savings on medicare payments would compensate for lost revenue from the tax breaks to small businesses. The total cost to business is estimated at $27 billion, only $10 billion more than they currently...