Word: sufferer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second, the radicals would no longer suffer the manpower drain that comes with injuries, legal proccedings and imprisonment. The establishment understands the threat posed by physical confrontation, and it reacts accordingly. It cannot as easily grasp and respond to simple withdrawal. The Chicago trial has spoken volumes about the nature of justice in this country. For this reason it was a "good" thing; but another trial will be less meaningful. We have come a long way when Jerry Rubin can get a sustained applause on a late-night talkshow. The people are behind the movement and are ready to mobilize...
When we look objectively at how the dry bones of the nation were hung together, it seems obvious that some one of the many groups that compose the U.S. had to suffer the fate of being allowed no easy escape from experiencing the harsh realities of the human condition as they were to exist under even so fortunate a democracy as ours. It would seem that some one group had to be stripped of the possibility of escaping such tragic knowledge by taking sanctuary in moral equivocation, racial chauvinism or the advantage of superior social status. There is no point...
...Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, "it is the black Americans and other minorities for whom the 'system' works least well." Among blacks, the poor are a majority, and for them inadequate health care-or none-is a womb-to-tomb reality. They suffer a hugely disproportionate share of disease and premature mortality...
Survival First. Health services are rationed according to purchasing power rather than need, and so are least available to those who need them most. Says Egeberg: "The poor suffer a great deal more infectious disease, go to the hospital more often, and stay there longer"-if they can afford to get to a hospital. As Permon Johnson, a student at Nashville's predominantly black Meharry Medical College, puts it: "The average poor black adult places survival ahead of medical attention. He comes to the hospital only when he's on his last legs. He doesn't know...
...consumer is hurt by pollution," Francis H. Cummings Jr. '72 said, "and we are not going to have him hurt again by paying to clean it up. The extra cost should be taken out of the advertising budget and paid for by large consumers. The domestic consumer should not suffer...