Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...punitive, Prohibition-style measure that would basically make average-income car owners suffer for having bought gas-using cars (even though there was no other kind of car for them to buy). Gas, like liquor and cigarettes, would be taxed like a sinful indulgence, allowing government policy-makers to look virtuous and hard-line on environment protection--on the people's backs...
Evidently Acevedo believes that a musician's job is only to entertain his or her fans, but unfortunately, some of today's music stars recognize that some things are more important than selling albums and making money. Sinead O'Connor does not care if her album sales suffer as long as she makes people aware of an issue that she rightly sees as important...
...most profound disagreement. I will never, ever accept that abortion is justified because a child might suffer or it is unwanted. Those are two of the most selfish, unpredictable reasons to abort a child that I can imagine. And they cut to the quick of why I'm opposed to it. If that were applied, Beethoven might not have lived. Jesse Jackson might not have lived, for crying out loud...
...nurturing this growing industry, Clinton has shown the trade-offs he would be willing to make -- and tolerate -- in the quest to create jobs and encourage business. Thousands of chicken growers and processing-plant workers suffer from low wages and harsh, even crippling working conditions. Their cheap labor and high productivity has enabled poultry's Pashas to enjoy explosive success in the past decade while keeping chicken prices low for consumers. In Arkansas, poultry workers are probably no worse off than their brethren in Mississippi or Georgia, but their numbers are greater, and they are increasingly angry that their share...
...addition to the basic tenet of eurocentrism inherent in his argument, Choi manipulates statistics to support his argument that Asians are a "model minority." For example, he explains that "many Black and Hispanic communities continue to suffer from low incomes, crime-ridden neighborhoods, broken homes," citing the Black, Hispanic and white poverty rates. He carefully omits the Asian poverty rate, thereby implying that Asians do not experience poverty at a significant rate...