Word: sufferred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corrected in time only through worldwide cooperation in natural-resource pooling. There will always be those looking for someone or something to blame for any sad situation. Bertrand Russell once said: "We do not like to be robbed of an enemy: we want someone to hate when we suffer." I blame, instead of an oil company, only my own unrestrained desires for material comfort...
...social satire, the film shows the Chinese army taking Paris without so much as a shot. Appalled at French decadence, the Chinese ban automobiles, alcohol and sex, mais alors, c 'est impossible! Mao's minions then decide to let the French indulge themselves in their vices and suffer the consequences, but the captors are eventually corrupted and abruptly ordered home to Peking, whereupon a handful of absurd partisans "liberate" Paris...
Fake Proverbs. The Chinese are not amused. Charging that the film draws "an unacceptable parallel between socialist China and fascist Germany," they demanded that the French government ban Les Chinois à Paris or suffer the consequences. The movie was no laughing matter to the French government either, which politely explained that it had had nothing to do with the picture. Nonetheless, since China had already canceled a French symphony orchestra tour of China and a Chinese gymnasts' visit to France when the film was being made last August, there were fears that a French industrial exhibition in Peking this...
...helps people when he can; he does favors for people if he thinks it is right. "Well, you have to help out all you can, and try to see that no one has to suffer," he explains...
...notes that patients treated in one big-city institution have a 66% chance of dying on the operating table, ending up with a nonfunctioning graft or suffering major nonfatal postoperative complications. There are risks even at some of the university hospitals offering the operation. Though operating room mortality may be less than 5%, complications such as myocardial infarction (the classic heart attack), brain damage, hemorrhage, kidney failure or closure of the bypass are not uncommon. Despite these risks, Russek noted the tendency of some doctors to perform the operation as a "preemptive procedure" on patients who have not yet experienced...