Word: sufferred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Protesters staging mass demonstrations against a nuclear plant in a New Hampshire town. Conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson and his state troopers arresting some 1,500 of them. Power company officials warning that in the end the public will suffer by paying unnecessarily high electricity rates...
...dead worm Frieden dangled in front of them. The reason, he thinks, is that they were anxious to learn if they were indeed masochists. In general, Frieden concludes, it is surprisingly easy to push normal people toward masochism. Says he: "When feeling bad about themselves, people actively choose to suffer." The good news is that none of the students received an electric shock or dined on worm. Frieden stopped the test when the newborn masochists made their choice...
...unfortunate fact which the Massachusetts law now represents is that, once again, minority families will suffer at the hands of unequal justice. Nearly one-third of the women who have received abortions in the nation since 1973 have been non-white. These are precisely the women who cannot afford to pay for abortions, the women whose children have a good chance of growing up in an unhappy enviornment, particularly if they are not wanted to begin with. The minimum price for an abortion these days is about $150. That rock-bottom price may not seem like very much to some...
...chance of an approaching downturn at 55% and urges that carrot-and-stick income tax policies be adopted to encourage labor and management to hold down wage and price raises. Unions and companies that settled for low increases would pay reduced taxes, while those that helped aggravate inflation would suffer tax penalties. Such an approach has been used successfully in Britain, where in the past year and a half inflation has plunged from some 20% to about 8%. But with the Administration's entire tax policy tangled up in Congress, Okun admits that his proposal for a Tax-based...
...chest was covered with ribbons from shoulder to rib cage. It was Hurley. Barrett, as senior American military officer, approached, looked the general up and down, offered the observation, "General, it looks as if you have a medal there for every campaign except Shays' Rebellion." Barrett was to suffer for this, as were I and Davies, and all who tried to instruct Hurley on China...