Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...counter he hears seniors cursing themselves for not laying out $200 their first year at college to buy a tuxedo; they now have to suffer their seventh $50 rental. He feels good about his prescient move to purchase his tux in October of his first year...
...Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. The visionary urge appeared less often in professional art, until Modernism arrived. There are elements of it in the work of Thomas Cole and in the dark, brooding landscapes of Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919), who was to suffer a depressive breakdown and spend the last 20 years of his life in a mental hospital. But the exemplar of the visionary state was Blakelock's exact contemporary, Albert Pinkham Ryder...
...that disturbing factor that others ignore. Now, however, I face a real problem: I can't find any of those factors. Each morning the paper brings such encouraging news about inflation or crime or unemployment that I almost expect to see the headline GOOD PEOPLE REWARDED; EVIL ONES TO SUFFER. The worry monger in me finds no satisfaction in the international pages either. The democracy kudzu spreads relentlessly, and while there are troubles, none compares with the risk of imminent global incineration. Then: the Cuban missile crisis. Now: the Caribbean summit. After so carefully developing the habit of pessimism...
Given that 1 in 10 Americans is likely to suffer from a diagnosable mental illness during the year, the stakes for employers are potentially enormous. Although the guidelines do not have any legal force under the law, refusing to follow them can be risky. The courts often look to the eeoc's analysis when ruling in discrimination lawsuits. So far, nearly 13% of all eeoc complaints under the disabilities law have involved mental illness, though some experts feel this number is leveling off. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 62% said they believe employers should accommodate mental impairments...
...emphatic no; ask a History and Literature concentrator if it falls under the rubric of the humanities and they too are likely to reply in the negative. Pre-meds who are not also science majors also straddle the dividing line between the two camps. However, they, too, seem to suffer the penalty for dividing their loyalties; their professors and classmates in the sciences often see them as mercenary sorts not committed to the subject matter, while more purely artistic or verbally-oriented types sometimes sniff that pre-meds have "sold their souls to organic chemistry," (this from stout-hearted Haley...