Word: sufferring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the people who contract hepatitis C never show symptoms. But like Typhoid Mary, they become silent carriers of the disease. About half those infected eventually suffer liver damage. Some 15,000 patients a year develop cirrhosis, and a small number may get cancer. That toll may be cut by interferon. But doctors warn that the mystery of non-A, non-B hepatitis may not be completely resolved. Type C virus could account for most of these cases, but there is evidence that yet another blood-borne virus will extend the hepatitis alphabet still further...
...self-perpetuating expression of pride and anger. But a growing number of Arab extremists argue that stones are no longer sufficient. "The only way we're going to get rid of the Israelis is with force," says a young activist from Nablus. "We have to make them suffer." So far, Palestinians have succeeded in killing 42 Jews, most of them civilians. The activist says several hundred more will have to die before Israel can be brought to the negotiating table...
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--Premier Ladislav Adamec resigned yesterday while still bargaining with a powerful opposition that demanded the communists form an acceptable government or suffer another general strike...
...showed how no-fault divorce laws -- passed in 43 states, largely in response to feminist demand -- have benefited men and impoverished women. Weitzman found that as a result of these laws, which largely eliminated alimony and often forced the sale of the family home, women and their children typically suffer a 73% drop in their standard of living after a divorce while the ex-husband's living standard jumps...
...responsibility for the assassination, branding it a "loathsome crime," and he is by no means the only possible suspect. Some Lebanese thought the professionalism of the bombing signaled a foreign intelligence service in action. Iran, Israel and Iraq were leading candidates, since each backs militant Lebanese factions that could suffer if the plan succeeds...