Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whatever the goals of the British, homegrown democrats like Lee realize that the colonial masters won't be around to enjoy--or suffer through--the results. So Lee has moved aggressively to ensure that Hong Kong's almost seven million residents have a voice of their own, arguing that neither China nor Britain are interested in real democracy--only in "selling Hong Kong down the river," as he said of his British masters...
Perhaps they remembered that winning the division nowadays has half as much meaning as it did two years ago, or maybe they were just waiting for the Red Sox to suffer their annual late-season meltdown...
...consequences for American democracy are ominous. As corporate giants quickly corner the information market and gobble up local television, radio, and newspaper outlets, press diversity will suffer. The logic of profit-driven programming will guarantee us more inanity in our sitcoms, more frivolity in our newscasts, more vacuity in our talk shows. The Republicans' efforts ignore one simple principle--true competition in the marketplace of ideas requires public regulation of communicative forums...
...view of the way Beijing has handled the women's conference, faith in China's ability to play by international rules has suffered mightily. The sometimes unfriendly, not to say surly treatment of guests from more than 180 countries so dominated foreign news dispatches that conference leaders despaired of communicating their serious business: relieving the plight of women worldwide who suffer worse things than searches and bad plumbing. Into this welter of conflicting concerns stepped one visitor who seemed to bring it all together--to issue a ringing call against abuse and discrimination in their universal forms as well...
...Summers, who was one of Harvard's leading public finance professors before taking a series of jobs that led to him being appointed deputy secretary of the Treasury, to someday return here to teach? How about Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich? Harvard's international reputation would not suffer from the homecoming of these other notables...