Word: sufferred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With an overwhelming majority in South Africa's parliament, the National Party is secure in office. But some of its leaders could suffer permanent damage to their political careers and reputations. Largely because he flatly denied to parliament that government funds were involved in funding the Citizen, one leading Afrikaans newspaper has suggested that Mulder should "review his position'' -a euphemism for resign. Eschel Rhoodie has hinted that an unnamed three-man Cabinet committee supervised the operations of his department. Prime Minister Botha has appointed yet another investigating committee, which is supposed to report to parliament...
...easy alternative of going on welfare. "There is still a stigma attached to being a domestic," says Historian David M. Katzman, author of Seven Days a Week (Oxford University Press; $14.95), a new book about household help in the U.S. from 1870 to 1920. "Cleaning women," he adds, "suffer from isolation and an atomization of work. They have none of the camaraderie that women in offices share...
Belisle describes himself as a "burnt out" case. The condition is familiar to child-abuse workers, whose divorce rate is above the national average. They suffer a notably high proportion of nervous breakdowns. After a few years on the job, many leave the service to earn a living in totally different fields in order to escape the tension and responsibility. Belisle, at least, still works for the protective service. But he does not go out on cases. He sits at the phone in the screening room. Phone work, screening incoming reports on child abuse, is at least one remove from...
Carter is enlarging the Council on Wage and Price Stability to monitor major wage contracts and the price increases set by large corporations, and offenders will suffer at least a public scolding. Firms doing business with the Government will have to sign agreements to comply with the standards when they get new contracts. Although Carter said that these contracts involve $80 billion in Government purchases each year, so many of them involve untouchable priority items, such as defense purchases, that the Government actually has leverage over only some $20 billion in new contracts each year. Still another veiled threat came...
...stake in preserving the way things are and who see crime as the only way "to get one's fair share in an unfair world." But, asks Silberman, how does one explain why blacks have a much higher crime rate than Hispanics, who are usually just as poor and suffer just as much discrimination? In New York City, for instance, a recent study shows that blacks commit four times as many robberies as Hispanics, though their numbers are roughly equal. In the Southwest, the black crime rate runs from two to seven times as high as the Hispanic...