Word: suffering
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Even if the misdeeds are limited to a few unscrupulous firms and some greedy bureaucrats, the entire generic-drug industry is likely to suffer. Generic products are so anonymous, says Dee Fensterer, president of the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry Association, that "when one company has a problem with one drug, it is jumped on as a problem of all generic drugs...
...around. The Bush Administration should be trying harder to get China -- itself in need of some respectability these days -- to abandon its most disgraceful clients. The U.S. should also withhold aid to Sihanouk until he breaks with the Khmer Rouge entirely. Perhaps, deprived of all international tolerance, they will suffer defeats, lose their ability to recruit troops and fade into history...
...studies of genetic diseases suggest that the chromosomes from the two parents can play slightly different roles. For example, children who through a reproductive malfunction receive two copies of chromosome No. 7 from their mother and no copy from their father sometimes suffer from a severely retarded growth rate. Naturally occurring cases of a kidney cancer called Wilms tumor are caused by a missing chromosome. But in almost all cases, the missing chromosome was the mother's, not the father...
...before his time runs out. Many Soviet experts in Europe and Washington predict that he has less than two years to complete his reforms and get the store shelves filled with the things his workers want to buy. If Gorbachev fails, his audacious political rendition of Surfin' U.S.S.R. could suffer the fate that wave riders most dread: a wipeout...
...There was always television, of course, or a trip to the local movie house. But nowadays, with the boom in the U.S. entertainment industry and the proliferation of cable TV, VCRs, computers and compact discs, the possibilities can seem limitless. So limitless, in fact, that many Americans appear to suffer from information anxiety, the inability to choose from among the riches available...