Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what seems to be a gut instinct for the politics of the future, but has far to go before he persuades the nation he is anything but a welterweight opportunist. Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford are ambassadors from the past. Other Republicans such as Howard Baker and George Bush suffer, like the President, from an absence of stature...
...found that the majority gave placebos to patients they disliked, considered difficult or suspected of exaggerating pain. When patients reported relief, the doctors and nurses incorrectly took that as proof of malingering. As one doctor told the researchers: "Placebos are used with people you hate, not to make them suffer, but to prove them wrong...
...intrigue, the company is not likely to suffer much. Upheavals on foreign currency markets have cut into ITT's overseas earnings since April, but that is beyond the power of any management to control. By just about every other measure ITT, which last year earned a record $662 million on sales of $15.2 billion, remains healthy...
...future with the U.S., allowing Washington to decide the best time for his departure. Indeed, Somoza had already abandoned the ultimate demand that had kept him in Managua for the past two weeks: he no longer required assurances that members of his 12,000-strong national guard would not suffer reprisals once he was gone. He admitted, sadly, that he was "in no position now to impose anything. I am not negotiating...
...There is no one on earth who will fail to suffer from these extraordinary increases," proclaimed Jimmy Carter, with only mild hyperbole. He and the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and West Germany issued a communiqué spelling out why: "Unwarranted rises in oil prices mean more worldwide inflation and less [economic] growth. That will lead to more unemployment, more balance of payments difficulty, and [will] endanger stability. We deplore the [OPEC] decision...