Mr Schwartz is a former director of the Institut Pasteur in France, and his book maps out with great clarity the scientific investigation into how scrapie a disease that has long been known to afflict sheep came to cross the species barrier to cows, and then from cows to humans.
Paul tried to explain the process known as "blowback" -- which is the result of someone else's action coming back to afflict you -- but the audience drowned him out as the other candidates tried to pounce on him.
Despite some success, like acid rain and ozone protection, environmental issues continue to afflict us.
Industrial injuries, of the sort that used to afflict workers in heavy industry, are on their way out.
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Poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy continue to afflict the daily lives of billions.
"I think the job of the Church is not simply to comfort the afflicted, but to afflict the comfortable, " he said.
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Employers' problems feed, in a vicious cycle, the urban problems--like regional and racial divisions, lousy city schools and a poorly prepared work force--that seem to afflict St.
Malik Solanka, a Bombay-born, Cambridge-educated millionaire, has come to New York to escape a disintegrating marriage and the bouts of uncontrollable fury that have started to afflict him.
In her first months in charge Yingluck has had to deal with a busy in-tray, including responding to some of the most severe monsoon floods to afflict the country in living memory.
And if a faulty computer model leads a bank to make deals at too low a price, the problem is likely to afflict an entire series of trades, rather than just a single transaction.
The market is even larger given the new appreciation for a condition called the metabolic syndrome, a hodgepodge of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease that is estimated to afflict some 50 million Americans.
At one point, Gibson wrote Eszterhas a note apologizing for one of his outbursts, saying, "I have a vast reservoir of rage-filled puss that from time to time spills out" and that "the devil seems to afflict me thru anger and my tongue, " Eszterhas says.
So the more probable reason for the rout in European banks, which has depressed European stock markets and led to contagion on Wall Street, is simply those very basic emotions that afflict investors from time to time (especially recently): fear and capitulation.
President NGUYEN MINH TRIET (Vietnam): (Through translator) And we are also determined not to let those differences afflict our overall larger interest.
True to their creed, journalists are supposed to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Arachnophobia (fear of spiders), ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) and acrophobia (fear of heights) afflict the majority of specific phobia sufferers, according to Weaver.
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Brizendine said these daymares afflict about half of new moms and typically last three to six months post-birth.
In recent months, a growing number of so-called orphan drugs, which are used to treat so-called rare diseases that afflict small patient populations, have won FDA approval.
Older suburbs are starting to suffer from some of the crime and joblessness that afflict inner cities.
Thirty years ago, the Orphan Drug Act provided financial incentives to pharmaceutical companies to develop treatments for rare diseases -- diseases that afflict fewer than 200, 000 people.
As the Audit Commission recently pointed out, many treatment services are wasted or ineffective because they fail to deal with the other problems - mental health, housing, social care - which often afflict the lives of addicts.
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