Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know it these young "virgin people" are beginning to talk and act like all the Harvard classes before them. They're full of "piss 'n'vinegar." They want to change the world. They want to build and create a UTOPIA so the poor and the downtrodden will no longer suffer. What a joke! They come to Harvard with beautiful thoughts--and that is to help humanity--and they wind up sitting in a swivel chair in some big Corporation screwing the poor and the helpless...
...have been, they were more humane than those carried out when Zia first imposed Islamic justice. Among other things, the government has replaced cat-o'-nine-tail with the relatively less lethal Malacca canes. Prisoners sometimes died when beaten with the multilash whips. Now the worst that they suffer are scars that they may carry for the rest of their lives...
...Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and that money market funds are riskier. There is a slight risk, but since the funds are put largely into top bank and corporate securities, a number of banks and cor porations would have to go broke before the typical money market investor would suffer much loss. He would not even lose, but his yields would go down, if interest rates declined. If they dropped far enough, he might have been wiser to invest in a long-term bank note. For example, a nine-year certificate of deposit now pays about 9%; that, of course...
...higher priced domestic goods instead of cheaper foreign products. A 1978 survey sponsored by retail organizations found that goods imported from Asia and Latin American cost, on the average, 16 per cent less than their American counterparts. Lower income groups then, the major consumers of these cheaper imported goods, suffer the most from the protectionist policies...
...monetarists are in control, and they have tied President Carter's hands as well. He couldn't come up with an anti-inflation policy of his own that businessmen wouldn't laugh at, so he's stuck with Volcker's by default. And we will suffer, in the coming months, through the recession that will, undoubtedly, cause the "drop in living standards" Volcker and businessmen everywhere prattle about, with all the compassion of a Hammurabi...