Word: suffering
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...crash is made more significant because Gabriel was not just an anonymous tragedy, but one of us. Those of us who knew Gabriel suffer the pain and grief that comes with any loss, made more acute by the victim's youth...
...winning the presidency next June, either for himself or for a popular anti-reform Communist candidate. If he succeeds, the current effort to reform and modernize Russia could be choked off in the grip of reimposed central control. The fabric of Russian society and East-West relations would suffer devastating damage...
That's because in endless meetings, Gingrich graciously solicited their ideas, and even accepted some of them. But he also made clear that a bill was inevitable, that the numbers would be huge, and that they stood to suffer far more by opposing it and being frozen out than by playing along. The hospital executives were amazed by Gingrich's mastery of numbing issues like reimbursement formulas. And they were delighted by his willingness to buy them off. He protected doctors' fees and won the endorsement of the American Medical Association. He satisfied the American Association of Retired Persons...
...medical breakthrough, a genetically engineered clot-dissolving drug, TPA, has been found to help prevent the irreversible brain damage that afflicts many stroke victims. Patients who received the drug were at least 30% more likely than untreated patients to suffer zero or minimal disability after three months. On the downside: TPA carries a small risk of brain hemorrhage and must be administered within three hours of the stroke...
...haunting question ''Is Bosnia Worth Dying For?'' I saw my own son's face, and my mind raced back a quarter-century to the battlefields of Vietnam. As a disabled veteran, I still see the faces of my dead friends. I still feel the pain of my wounds. I suffer as tourists visit Ho Chi Minh City. Will the madness ever end? I am confident that I speak for millions when I answer the question "Is Bosnia worth dying for?" with a defiant no! DENNIS DIFOLCO Staten Island, New York...