Word: sufferings
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While catastrophic cave-ins are relatively rare in the U.S., about 260,000 former miners suffer from another killer: black lung disease. One reason could be that mine operators routinely circumvent air-safety standards established in 1969 to regulate the amount of coal dust in the mines. Now the government is cracking down. In Virginia last week, 13 coal companies and 15 people pleaded guilty to falsifying air samples to understate levels of coal dust. The companies face fines of as much as $500,000 each. The individuals could be imprisoned for five years and fined $250,000. Prosecutors...
...same time, the blatant discrimination Arabs suffer in Israeli society makes the community fertile ground for radicalism. For every shekel the central government spends on an Arab citizen, it spends 2.5 on a Jewish one. While 11% of Israel's Jews live below the poverty line, 52% of its Arabs do. No Arab has ever been a full Cabinet minister, and even the Prime Minister's adviser on Arab affairs is and always has been...
Some abandoned patients are merely frail and suffer from the complications of chronic diseases such as diabetes. But more are clearly demented. They show up in emergency rooms with acute problems like dehydration. Elderly people who live alone are sometimes so desperate for help that they in effect abandon themselves. Others are dumped not by relatives but by landlords and even household employees. In Greenville, N.C., a 65-year-old alcoholic woman materialized on the doorstep of the Pitt County Memorial Hospital after she was shoved out of a car by a fed-up and weary maid...
Some workers suffer from carpal-tunnel syndrome. Now Nintendo addicts report a new hand ailment dubbed Nintendinitis. Can Rollerbladitis be far behind...
While defense contractors suffer, small and medium-size firms that have vigorously cut costs could be in for recovery-generated profits. "I am more optimistic for middle-market companies than for Big Business," says Art Nemiroff, managing partner of the Los Angeles branch of the consulting firm BDO Seidman, whose 2,200 U.S. clients include retailers and manufacturers with sales of up to $100 million. "Most of our clients were able to downsize quickly," Nemiroff adds. "They are operating from a leaner and meaner position today...