Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlimited-access plan has turned into a horrific nightmare for America Online, the nation's largest Internet provider. Not only must it deal with the threat of lawsuits from members who say the move has congested the network and made it impossible to log on, but it must also suffer the indignity of being ridiculed by the competition before 100 million TV viewers Super Bowl Sunday. Seizing the opportunity to capitalize on AOL's cyber-blunder, CompuServe will air a 30-second commercial depicting 15 seconds of black screen accompanied by repeated unsuccessful attempts by a user...
...bothered to help addicts get into rehab programs. This is an action comedy about two guys waiting in line for nothing to happen: Samuel Beckett rewritten for Simpson-Bruckheimer. Part of the joke here is that Spoon and Stretch, who are less performance artists than petty criminals, suffer from welfare-state dependency. And, in Michigan, this is the wrong state to depend on. Public servants are ignorant or lazy or just plain crazy."The film's villains are from Central Casting, the cops from Keystone," says TIME's Richard Corliss. " But that's not what matters. Taking a page from...
...should control how all that money gets invested. This would, they said, undermine support for Social Security's lesser-known role as a safety net for the working poor and disabled. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New York Democrat, predicted that the safety-net part of the program would suffer the fate of welfare. "Support for the redistributive aspects of Social Security would quickly erode," he said...
...they ever were. One of the most encouraging messages from the November election is that even as voters demand an end to welfare dependency, they want a stronger social safety net--not entitlement subsidies for rich and poor alike, but instead temporary help for those who work hard and suffer a layoff, a divorce or the illness of a child. Exit polls, as well as interviews by TIME correspondents with voters in cafes and K Marts, indicate that this desire for a stronger safety net--and the suspicion that most Republicans don't understand it--explains much of the voting...
...with the work of a tax-exempt nonprofit group. Instead, it faulted Gingrich for not taking "appropriate steps" to assure that he was complying with the law. Now it is up to the full committee--and perhaps ultimately the entire House--to determine what penalties, if any, he should suffer...