Normally, though this problem does not afflict the economy because mortgage contracts are relatively liquid.
True to their creed, journalists are supposed to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
It's pretty clear that scandals can only afflict so much damage, no matter the sport.
Zetia lacks the muscle-weakening side effects that afflict the current crop of cholesterol blockbusters, called statins.
They afflict one in 500 American women, and most carriers will get breast or ovarian cancer.
Despite some success, like acid rain and ozone protection, environmental issues continue to afflict us.
Moreover, these banks typically don't have the toxic asset problems that afflict their American counterparts.
And if China sneezed, an epidemic seemed likely to afflict the rest of Asia.
The National Governors Association estimates that budget problems could afflict 35-40 states in fiscal 2009.
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The Center for Retirement Research studied the costs that afflict a typical self-directed 401(k) plan.
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They provide complex services for the thousands of diseases, conditions, and injuries that afflict us.
Older suburbs are starting to suffer from some of the crime and joblessness that afflict inner cities.
Brizendine said these daymares afflict about half of new moms and typically last three to six months post-birth.
If they do this, many of the usability problems that now afflict the industry will gently fall away.
Ms Novogratz thinks such measures help guard against the inefficiency and corruption that often afflict traditional aid efforts.
Industrial injuries, of the sort that used to afflict workers in heavy industry, are on their way out.
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But this is not an option for tests for those diseases that afflict only those in the tropics.
Of course, every deficit reduction target is hopelessly tangled up in the many baselines that afflict the budget debate.
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Poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy continue to afflict the daily lives of billions.
But we can afford reasonable risk management: insuring against the truly catastrophic, low-probability events that hopefully never afflict us.
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All told, orphan diseases afflict about 25 million people in the United States.
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In theory, the same problem could afflict the rest of the Alibaba Group.
Recent falls in emerging-world currencies and stock prices show that financial panic can afflict the periphery too (see article).
Strohman said the human genome only explains rare inherited diseases, which represent only about 2-percent of all maladies that afflict mankind.
"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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The result can be a kind of soulless, percentage piano, the spirit of which may afflict even the most renowned pianists.
President NGUYEN MINH TRIET (Vietnam): (Through translator) And we are also determined not to let those differences afflict our overall larger interest.
The biggest problems in children's medicine concern diseases that afflict the poor.
And we are engaged in getting rid of chronic poverty, ignorance and disease, which still afflict millions and millions of our people.
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Similar problems afflict working-class whites, but they are more concentrated among blacks.
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