Word: sufferred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic stagnation. An international recession and a string of bad harvests led instead to an economic slump; and Gierek, like his predecessor, attempted to end artificial price controls in 1976. Workers took to the streets, and the regime backed down. With no solution in sight, Polish consumers now suffer from endemic shortages of meat. Necessary consumer goods like pins and shoe polish are sporadically unavailable. Meanwhile, Poland has managed to roll up an international debt of $15 billion...
...exert collective pressure." He, of course, does not believe the price of some amorality would be too high. After all, Harvard only contributes a small amount to the profits of these corporations. And what is that compared to the loss of freedom, independence and money the University would suffer? He suggests that Harvard should leave the moral decisions to the government: "We are more likely to achieve a better society by relying on the government to regulate corporate behavior and direct foreign policy than by encouraging private organizations to use their economic power...
More than half of the original members of the Class of '54 will stride into Cambridge this week. Too young to suffer during the Depression or World War II, in college during the Korean War, too old to be young in the sixties, yet not old enough to have children caught up in that decade, they have made much of their position in American chronology. They left Harvard 25 years ago, like many other classes, confident that the future offered nearly unlimited possibilities. For the Class of '54, the future kept that promise.Sen. JOSEPH R. McCARTHY...
...works on the top floor of their spacious brick house. Elkin writes in the kitchen to be near the swimming pool and the bathroom. He has some trouble getting around. In 1961 he suffered the first symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a swelling of the optic nerve known as retro-bulbar opticneuritis. "It's a dumb disease," says Elkin. "It kills you by inches but you suffer by yards...
...court became the first in the nation to uphold the withholding of emergency treatment from irreversibly, terminally-ill in-competent patients who suffer caridac or respiratory failure. The decision held that doctors have the final say on the right-to-die of these patients...