Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cases"), Walter stands by it. "I don't think it's an unrealistic figure," he said last week, "since we have about 7,000 hospitals and 30 million hospitalized patients a year." The figure would be far greater, he notes, if it included patients who suffer cardiac arrest as a result of electrical shock but are resuscitated...
...result, housing, which has only recovered from the 1966 squeeze, seems certain to suffer again (see BUSINESS). Car sales may also slow down. But no one seems very alarmed. "I don't see any drastic reaction," says Economist Beryl Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "It just seems to confirm the view that this time the policymakers really mean business...
...when to continue research is a problem that constantly bedevils Betts and his counterparts elsewhere in the Pentagon. "Make it, and you're a hero," he says. "Wrong, and you are up on the Hill." Men like Betts and John Foster, the research chief for the Defense Department, suffer nightmares that the other side may achieve some technological breakthrough that will leave the U.S. far behind in some crucial area and thereby subject it to blackmail by an enemy with an unbeatable hand...
...cases, and the total for the U.S. may run as high as 225,000. The fact is that no one really knows, and the experts cannot even agree as to the best way to find out. Nor can they tell yet how many of the lead-poisoned children will suffer permanent brain damage, or die in young adulthood from kidney damage...
...problems of America; and to relate fully to those problems we need to relate fully to their history as problems, even if we cannot relate ourselves to the country's history as a whole. In essence, Malcolm X asked us to do this in his autobiography--to suffer the black people's agony, to relieve their humiliation, in an effort to further our stature as Americans while we extended our humanity...