Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Left at Harvard has no broad, overarching philosophy. They suffer from the same problem President Bill Clinton suffers from: they lack "the vision thing." Although these words have evolved into something of a bad joke, they signify the need for a political movement to have some compelling explanation that ties together the important issues it seeks to address...
...that spousal abuse is occurring in one of every three Army families each year -- double the civilian rate. Each week someone dies at the hands of a relative in uniform, and nearly 1,000 formal complaints of injury are lodged against family members in the service. Untold thousands may suffer in silence...
...real people in this country, people who are still the victims of unlawful discrimination....I hope that despite the unfairness of the way I have been treated by the political process, that people will nevertheless work within that system to resolve the more important unfainesses that other continue to suffer in their daily lives...
...Vets Suffer Gulf War Syndrome
Other protagonists also suffer from one-sidedness. The owner of the Jean-Bart mine, who in the book is painted as a decent man sacrificing much to ameliorate the conditions of his workers, comes across in the movie as merely another dirty capitalist, while the daughter of the owner of Le Voreux is not in the film shown to be sufficiently repellent. Depardieu, in the role of Maheud, is the only principal who, as usual plays his part convincingly, and, for the most part, Zola's purely verbal descriptions far surpass the living, breathing renditions of the movie...