Word: sufferings
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More than 20,000 U.S. residents suffer from Huntington's, a fatal disease, which usually manifests during middle age. Symptoms include progressive loss of muscle control and cognitive function, often leading to dementia...
Russians may beg, borrow or steal foreign artifacts and ideas, but the vast majority of them would never want to live abroad. Those who do emigrate often suffer from chronic homesickness. Though keenly embarrassed by their economic and social backwardness, they believe passionately in the inherent superiority of their own soulfulness when compared with the arid materialism of the West. Ivan Goncharov's classic 19th century novel, Oblomov, presents the ethnic German Stolz as a model of energy and industry, but it is the dreamy Russian Oblomov who handily wins the competition of cultures. It may take Oblomov most...
...people who are personally predisposed to abnormal eating, being at the mercy of the dining hall's menu and atmosphere can be extremely oppressive, say some students who suffer from eating disorders...
...Birmingham says that "school choice without the reform bill is problematic," because without a financial boost, poorer schools could suffer...
Advocates for abused youngsters contend that such seemingly premeditated acts can be self-defense. People who suffer abuse for a long time can become adept at sensing impending violence. "They are hypervigilant, sensitive to aggressive cues," explains Mones. "They know when someone is going to hurt them even though it may not be apparent to the outside observer." He calls for prosecutors to assign parricide cases to trained child-abuse investigators rather than to regular homicide detectives...