Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, many Black and Hispanic communities continue to suffer from low incomes crime-ridden neighborhoods, broken homes, and poorly funded schools. According to a 1990 Census Bureau report, the Black poverty rate stood at 31.9% and the Hispanic poverty rate at 28.1%; the white poverty rate was 10.7% in 1990. Also in 1990, three out of five Black families were maintained by single parents...
Faith will thrive, theology will suffer...
...wish will be granted at the touch of a button, may have trouble interacting with one another in the real world. One hypothesis: people will become more self- centered, less attuned to their neighbors and society. Bridging the gap between cultures and races could become more difficult. Civility will suffer too. "Because most public events and entertainment will be experienced privately, people will lose a sense of how to behave in public," says Postman. "Even on the screen in movie theaters, they already have to tell people not to talk...
Students who get less sleep are more likely to suffer from eating disorders to have disrupted eating patterns, and to be concerned about excess weight, according to a 1990 study published in Perceptual and Motor Skills journal...
Other radicalized patients arrived at their activism by similar routes. Most of them suffer from diseases that are rare or difficult to diagnose, which means that they were shuttled from specialist to specialist, leaving a trail of money and test results but no answers or cures. By banding together and sharing information, patients become informed consumers. Many groups have a Rolodex of scientists and physicians who can be called upon to educate a local doctor confronting his first case of a rare disease. Information campaigns help improve diagnosis, which in turn gives public health officials a more accurate sense...