Last week's well-received debut of tech-focused real estate brokerage Redfin showed there are pockets of strong retail investor demand — even amidst suffering in the broader IPO market for some recently debuted tech shops.
As Viktor Frankl's book illustrated, this sense of meaning is essential for life even amidst (in fact, especially amidst) suffering, physical hardship, abuse and disease.
Yet, many have also remained faithful amidst that suffering.
There is a premium today on "doing," as if we are now suffering, amidst astounding productivity, from an essential passivity.
Injustice, we know well, does not vanish "inevitably," whether it is racial or gender discrimination or the injustice of penury and suffering amidst plenty.
With NIH research spending at a near-historic high, exceeding $28 billion, but success rates near historic lows, scientists are suffering "famine amidst plenty," he said at the AHCJ panel discussion.
I think what I like about the fans and what I would advise is this, "How accessible is it to people?" I think at this point, this culture could use as much music as it possibly could and can stand because we need to have these tiny moments of joy amidst a world of suffering.
In the words of Dr. Orbinski, they were there, "to give assistance to people suffering from starvation" amidst "a civil war that was becoming more brutal by the day".
Hamas has been calling for an alternative leadership to the Palestinian cause, the people in Gaza are suffering from a humanitarian crisis...but amidst all this, Arabs have found a new hero, at least for a week or two.
In addition to the ongoing difficulties of living amidst daily violence and widespread insecurity, children are also suffering from the inadequacy of basic services such as water and sanitation, Bellamy said.
"In my opinion, these issues are languishing amidst discussions among multiple parts of the government, the Constitution itself is suffering, and it will take the personal involvement of you or the president to set things right," Mr. Smith said in the letter.
