Word: sufferings
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...noble and vital undertaking, but not an easy one. U.N. forces have, and will, suffer losses. They can rude out these storms, but only if our leaders are able to ride out the storms on the homefront...
Thant said Burmese women suffer at the hands of the repressive government there. Although the country's government imposes restrictions on both men and women, Thant said women bear the brunt of this repression...
...Summit, however, means that politicians are beginning to understand that we have reached a watershed in our relationship with the environment. Last November, 1,500 scientists, including 100 Nobel prizewinners, stated at a conference that if things go on like this, within decades our biosphere will suffer irreversible damage. I think this realization will change the way politicians think...
Americans, especially high-mileage males, suffer a peculiar kind of dementia in the presence of gear; they are likely to buy any piece of overpriced sports equipment, so long as it has a digital readout or is made of something crucial to the success of the space station. Or both; Panasonic is advertising a tiny hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) device, a little brother to the satellite navigation system developed for the military and now used in aircraft and yachts. This astonishing dingus will consult the stars (satellites, actually) and tell you, on land...
Blacks of both sexes and all ages suffer cardiac arrest at rates significantly higher than their white counterparts, according to a new study. Not only that: when the heart stoppage occurs outside a hospital, blacks survive the episode only one-third as often as whites. Another study indicates that whites are more than twice as likely to have expensive bypass surgery as blacks...