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Sachs said maintaining pharmaceutical companies' intellectual property rights was an important but secondary goal, and said their profits would not suffer due to African distribution below market price...
...which is in many ways the most powerful pure-play Internet force on planet Earth in 2001. It has recently become the top e-commerce destination, growing at a rate of roughly 1 million users per month. While its brethren in the legendary website club (namely Yahoo! and Amazon.com) suffer alarming slowdowns in growth, eBay posts quarter after quarter of stunning profits (its latest: $21 million, an increase of more than 150% on the same period last year...
...names of phobias can be found online, the people who actually suffer from at least one of them at some point in their life--about 50 million in the U.S. by some estimates--are everywhere. They may be like "Beth," a pseudonym, a middle school student in Boston whose hemophobia, or fear of blood, was so severe that even a figure of speech like "cut it out" could make her faint. Or they may be like "Jean," 38, an executive assistant in New Jersey who is so terrified of balloons that just walking into a birthday party can make...
...million Americans who have experienced or will someday suffer from a phobia (and many will have more than one), 35 million will suffer from social phobia, and the battle they fight is a harrowing one. Richard Heimberg at Temple University's Adult Anxiety Clinic often thinks of the 50-year-old patient who talked frequently about getting married and having a family--a reasonable dream, except that his terror of rejection had kept him from ever going out on a date. After much encouragement and counseling, he finally screwed up his courage enough to ask a woman out. The next...
...rock of ideology in the snowball of George W. Bush's frolicksome charm. Fine. He's a conservative. But in this country, now, conservatism without discretion is mere doctrine, and principles without brains or strategy are indistinguishable from stupidity: dead weight. If George W. Bush begins to suffer an ignominious nightly death-by-Leno - the vast middle third of America tucked in bed and laughing derisively at the Homer Simpson in the White House - then Bush is gone...