Word: sufferings
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...producers may lose business. If the Japanese government compels importers to purchase American goods, then Japan's consumers may have to pay more, or make do with poorer quality goods. It is also easy to see why third parties, such as exporters in Europe or Asia, may suffer. But as long as the policy of demanding with menaces works--so long as American exports increase--how can America be the victim...
...answer is that America may suffer from Japanese retaliation, through trade policy or other venues. It is in America's economic and strategic interests, as well as in Japan's, to nurture the alliance between the two countries. If the Clinton administration's trade policy toward Japan is angry and complaining, something valuable is in danger...
That is what most of the argument is about. At Washington dinner parties, you hear the questions: Why put it in Washington? Why not in Berlin, say? Or else: Why should the Germans suffer this kind of permanently installed American rebuke, as if the years of Hitler were all of German history? And why would Americans build a memorial and museum to the European Holocaust before installing a remembrance, say, of slavery and the black American struggle, or of the devastation of American Indian life? The premise is that America's sacred statuary memory belongs to things that happened...
There are no maybes about it as far as Robert Bakker is concerned. Long- haired, bearded and strongly opinionated, free-lance paleontologist Bakker has been the bad boy of the field for years, and does not suffer fools gladly. "There are still a few of my colleagues who think, 'If it walks like a duck, breathes like a duck and grows like a duck, it must be a turtle...
...from the same cloth. They are blowfish inflated with self-righteousness--never upset but "shocked" and "outraged." A profoundly masochistic breed, they are never so gleeful as when they are aggrieved. Conversely, they are never so lost, dejected, and confused as when they get what they want. Rather than suffer from such a fate, the Protesters will increase their demands, or impute ulterior motives to those who have capitulated to them...