Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backed into this corner simply because of the massive amount of litigation we have had to face in the approximately 50 cases brought by the Scientologists against us since 1991," Kisser said. "If you get sued 50 times over four years the odds are that you're going to suffer losses at some point...
...request to be permitted to privatize the state's welfare system. Some of the most influential players in the White House, including domestic-policy adviser Bruce Reed, are urging Clinton to grant a waiver that could make way for an important new approach to welfare. But Gore could suffer if the move antagonizes the powerful government-workers union...
Harvard led 7-2 at the half, and there was never any threat that the team was going to suffer a monumental collapse. The shot statistics alone should give you some idea of who was in control of this game: Harvard 41, Yale...
...million female baby boomers reluctantly edging toward the half-century mark and beginning to suffer the symptoms of perimenopause, phytoestrogens are shaping up as the next big health fad--as big, perhaps, as fiber and omega-3 fatty acids rolled into one. The reason: many women are unhappy with the options mainstream medicine has to offer. For younger women in perimenopause, gynecologists sometimes prescribe low-dose birth-control pills to even out hormone levels. And as full menopause draws nearer, physicians typically prescribe Premarin, an estrogen derived from pregnant mares' urine. But while the benefits of Premarin are considerable--among...
...School Desegregation issued an alarming update: the 1991-94 period, the latest for which statistics are available, saw the largest shift back toward segregation for blacks since the landmark 1954 desegregation decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. And black students are not the only ones to suffer increasing isolation. Notes education professor Gary Orfield, co-author of the study: "One of our most sobering findings is that the group that is going to become the predominant minority population in this country, the Latinos, is even more isolated than the blacks. They're being locked into inferior, impoverished schools...