Word: suffering
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Parador operates on the no longer fanciful premise that an actor can impersonate a president for a long time, and that however much a buffoon he is, as long as he has charisma, the people will suffer him gladly. When the dictator of Parador dies, his right-hand man (Julia) forces Jack Noah (Dreyfuss), an American movie actor shooting on location in Parador, to assume the role of the dictator to prevent the citizens from finding...
...Dukakis maintains his vague approach and still wins--not inconceivable, considering Bush's propensity for shooting himself in the behind--he may well suffer from the same symptoms Carter faced as president...
...virtual parking lot each winter. North Kendall Drive, a suburban Miami thoroughfare described as a "road to nowhere" when it was built some 20 years ago, is now almost as choked as Manhattan streets. The number of airports considered by the FAA to be severely congested, meaning they suffer from annual flight delays of 20,000 hours or more, is expected to increase from 18 in 1986 to 32 by 1996 if no action is taken...
...certainly has an entrepeneurial capability," Shuster says. "He could have made departments across the board suffer the costs of the state's economic cuts. But the choice he made instead was a much more dramatic, tougher decision, that is to pick out parts of the university that would bear the brunt and parts that would remain strong...
...cold war really over? No doubt the withdrawal from Afghanistan marks a change. It signifies the demise of the Brezhnev Doctrine, first enunciated with the invasion of Czechoslovakia exactly 20 years ago. Brezhnev declared that socialism will suffer no losses: countries that come under Marxist- Leninism remain under Marxist-Leninism. Afghanistan is the first breach in that doctrine. (Grenada is too small to count.) Enthusiastic believers in the demise of the cold war also point to Gorbachev's words to show that the Soviet Union, apostle of revolution ("national liberation"), has become the defender of stability. A favorite quote...