Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David in extra large, where employees are costumed as giant diamonds or Roman vestals in mini-togas. Amid all this, the ritual extraction of money produces shrieks, groans and -- sometimes -- incongruously grim determination. On his first night as a $25,000-a-year dealer, Larry Brown saw a gambler suffer a stroke. "What really shocked me is how the players reacted, how they continued making their bets, reaching over him and stuff," he says...
...treatment from the growers might improve the cutters' lot, but nothing will ameliorate the reality of harvesting cane by hand. It is boring, backbreaking work, carried out in oppressive heat, surrounded by the dangers of poisonous snakes, fire ants and whirling, razor-sharp scythes. Some of those who suffer these miseries take pride in their work. A man from St. Lucia tells Wilkinson, "Cutting the cane in itself is also a skillful task, you must be skillful at it. When you cutting the cane you must have a free mind...
...airline-buyout binge raises fears that maintenance could suffer. -- Robert Campeau puts Bloomingdale's up for sale as his leveraged empire starts to crumble...
...branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, apparently issued the credits and kept the records at home. Drogoul, whose possible motives are still being investigated, has been dismissed. The Italian bank contends that it will suffer no losses from the scheme because the credits were guaranteed by U.S. and Iraqi agencies, but banking experts believe debt-laden Iraq may be hard pressed to make good if the deals go sour...
...must suffer them all again...