Word: afflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Horner told the graduating seniors to "workfirst to to comfort the afflicted," who are thoseconfused by their quickly changing position in theworld. Then, she told them, "to afflict thecomfortable," who Horner said were thosecomplacent with the way the world...
...until Sunday morning did a State Department spokesman announce that the body was at last on its way to a U.S. air base in Spain for identification. Used first as proof of the hijackers' resolve, the stranded corpse had thus become a symbol of the obstacles and divisions that afflict the terrorists' homeland...
Other valley firms are discovering that high technology also involves high risks. Promised breakthroughs can be delayed and then produce few benefits. In addition, the high-tech firms are equally prone to the ailments that afflict all companies: miscalculation, mismanagement and even misfortune. Some electronics and computer firms along Boston's Route 128 are experiencing problems similar to those afflicting the valley...
...healing process, the deaths of the 600 people killed in the Amritsar clash will take years, perhaps generations, to erase. It is likely to become part of the permanent baggage of antagonism and distrust that afflict India's 746 million people of so many diverse races, religions, tribes, languages and circumstances. Fully 83% of India's population is Hindu; 11% is Muslim, 2.6% is Christian, and the remaining 3.4% is divided among Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and others. Over the past year there have been riots or incipient rebellions in places as scattered as Assam in the northeast...
...cause of sores around the mouth and on the genitals. But in infants less than five weeks old, who lack the protection of a fully developed immune system, the infection can be disastrous, causing blindness, mental retardation, a range of neurological disorders and even death. The severe handicaps that afflict the Emporia and Sacramento children are typical results of herpes infection in the newborn. Their classmates, however, are safe from physical or mental damage because they have mature immune systems that are able to ward off infection...