Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton's energy tax. He went no further, but another senior Administration official observes that "if they oppose us, every industry knows there is a price to pay." Several lobbyists say their clients are spooked by the prospect that unless they cooperate with the White House, they could suffer the fate of drug companies, whose stocks have been hammered in part because of criticism from the President and his wife about alleged price gouging...
...GOOD TERMINAL ILLness, but people who know Alzheimer's disease consider it one of the worst. Its slow and agonizing course leads inexorably from memory lapses to personality changes to utter loss of intellectual functions to certain death. The emotional toll on the estimated 4 million Americans who suffer from the disease and on their families is incalculable; the bills for nursing care are enormous...
Patients, who become progressively weaker as the disease proceeds, often die of pneumonia or asphyxiation, and often suffer severe emotional disturbances...
Their investigation begins with a white blood cell called CD4. It is the linchpin of the immune system and the main target of HIV. As a general rule, people who become infected by HIV suffer a drop in their CD4 count from a normal level of about 1,200 cells per 1/1000th of a mL of blood to 500 cells or less. The risk of developing one or more of the illnesses associated with AIDS rises dramatically if the CD4 count drops below...
...Winthrop House we have eighteen tutors who with their families constitute a population of about 25 adults and children. These figures come from a house that is home to less than 400 students. Overcrowding is rife, yet as students suffer the small and dingy rooms, the tutor population proliferates...