Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Parents joining their kids to cheer on strikes and suffer through seven-ten splits. Bringing families together in front of a television set, giving relatives something to do beside talking to each other--such is the stuff that holiday sports traditions are made...
DeSombre says she thinks her students' mid-term grades might suffer for lack of sufficient opportunity to speak with her about the course...
Uninsured patients suffer from hospital negligence more than twice as often a patients with insurance, according to a medical study conducted by three Harvard professors and released yesterday...
...slippery. Some rooms are cold, others hot and malodorous enough to bring a visitor close to vomiting. Employees are sometimes splashed with feces, blood, guts or chicken fat. Even more odious is the industry's rising injury rate. Labor Department statistics show that 27% of poultry workers suffer on-the-job injuries and illnesses each year, making fowl processing one of the nation's most hazardous jobs. In terms of repetitive-motion disorders, poultry work is exceeded only by meat packing. In a study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1 in 3 chicken workers was found...
...coffee consumption. In the experiment, people deprived of caffeine complained that they felt worse than when they had the flu, and one woman noted the sickness was as bad as what she experienced while undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for cancer. Caffeine withdrawal may explain the puzzling distress some people suffer following surgery (pre-op procedure often prohibits food or liquids), or on weekends (no office coffeepot), or during visits with people who prefer decaffeinated beverages. The findings, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine by a Johns Hopkins University team, may apply equally to moderate drinkers...