Word: suffering
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...Malaysia suffered a black eye when an opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, appeared in court earlier this week sporting bruises and welts -- but that's nothing compared with the economic asphyxiation it's about to suffer. Currency controls opposed by Anwar came into effect Thursday, clamping down hard on the movement of capital, forbidding currency trading and fixing the ringgit's exchange rate. "Prime Minister Mahathir has effectively pulled his country out of the international economy," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "By sharply limiting outflows of capital, Malaysia has scared away long-term investors whose capital is crucial...
...most victims arthritis simply means pain and stiffness in the joints--sometimes moderate, sometimes severe, usually responsive to treatment with one of a number of drugs. Pain can be just the beginning, though, for the more than 2 million Americans who suffer from the variant of the disease known as rheumatoid arthritis. This unfortunate minority may experience not just discomfort but also joint deformities, fatigue, nodules of tissue under the skin and inside internal organs and, in rare cases, inflammation of the membranes surrounding the heart and lungs...
Ethan too has trouble learning his part as a bereft father. He doesn't know which to give the upper hand to--sadness or anger--and whether it's more manly to suffer in silence, drink in hand, or rage out loud, with his finger on a trigger. "This was the fatal habit of Polonius: to stand in the shadows, listening, peering at life with half an eye, letting others take the risk of living and despising them...
CROSSFIRE CURSE Why did Geraldine Ferraro [2], who entered the New York Democratic Senate primary with a 25-point lead, suffer a 25-point loss to Representative Chuck Schumer? Maybe it's the Crossfire curse. Evidence: two-time presidential contender Pat Buchanan also lost his races dismally, taking 22% of the vote. Stay where you are, John Sununu...
While there are no exact statistics on how many Harvard students suffer from RSI, many said they believed the number has been increasing over the past few years...