Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former policy warned students with low attendance records that they would suffer disciplinary action if they did not increase their attendance...
...portend a significant shift in the way the international body lends money. Traditionally the IMF has demanded harsh austerity measures in struggling economies before helping them out, and usually it's the poor who pick up the tab. "There's been a lot of discussion on how the poor suffer most from IMF prescriptions," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The IMF is going to have to be much more flexible in what it demands of the countries it's helping -- the IMF's tough prescriptions actually pushed some of the Asian countries into depression...
However, I find this seemingly dismal fate much more preferable than the other alternative for a Red Sox playoff team: getting swept. They are the only team to suffer a four-game sweep in the League Championship Series when it was the only barrier between the regular season and the World Series...
Personally, I don't like fire and never have. I don't like to suffer and cry when those around me do. I was never a pyromaniac as a young teenager...
...this political wrangling leaves potential transplant patients in limbo, adding uncertainty to the anguish they already suffer. Like Bryan Lee, Rita May Bolen has had enough. From her home in a New Orleans suburb, she calmly says her husband Leon, 71, is "sitting in a chair dying." They have been waiting 10 months for a liver. In August Leon was second in line for an organ that was about to become available, but it went to a sicker patient, a young father. "It's the fairest way," says Rita May. But watching the debate over regulatory changes--which could have...