Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Part of expressing your opinion is being a grownup and putting your name on it," Wareing says. "It's duplicitous to say, 'I want all the benefits but don't want to suffer the effects of the fallout...
...some of their own political goodwill in the process. If the result is a compromise that comes even close to Clinton's deficit-reduction goal, his strategy will be deemed a success. But if Senators fail to produce anything but gridlock, they won't be the ones to suffer humiliation...
...villains of Raymond Bonner's confused rant about elephants in Africa are misguided animal-rights activists, well-born white conservationists and elephants. Elephants? Bonner's subtitle, Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, constitutes false advertising since the book's sympathies lie with Africans who suffer at the hooves of elephants that trample crops, destroy property and kill natives. According to Bonner, elitist conservationists unleashed these malevolent beasts on hapless villagers when the World Wildlife Fund and the African Wildlife Foundation cynically pushed for an international ban on the sale of ivory in 1989 because it played well with sentimental...
Researchers may have found a biological explanation for bulimia. Those who suffer from the eating disorder -- which involves compulsive bingeing, followed by forced vomiting -- have low levels of the brain chemical serotonin; the discovery may point the way toward treatment...
...life on his own. A wine fancier, he could walk into a liquor store and pick his own bottles. He could go to the laundry and make a fool of himself by letting suds flood the floor. When the winter turned harsh, he could tape his own windows or suffer the consequences. He made good use of his experience, writing a thesis on the Thames as a commercial highway during the Middle Ages. Later, he was to write a book on his English experience, illustrated with his own photographs that caught the charm of a very different land...