In the laboratory, the happiest white rat can be turned into a jittering wreck by just the treatment I have been enduring - reward and punishment so mixed up that the poor brute does not know which will happen next.
I am grateful to Thomas Friedman for articulating so well in his column "Where did 'we' go," (Views, Oct. 2) what I have been enduring during these past nine months, the denigration of our president, Barack Obama, and the office of the presidency.
"When I created this image, it was to break my silence on the suffering I had been enduring for many years".
Retirement can be a petrifying prospect when the person you've been enduring a parallel life with suddenly converges on to your path.
We've been enduring this climate war nonsense for more than a decade and now we're wearing the consequences – rising prices, unreliable power supply and increasing emissions.
The problems we've been enduring have not been income statement issues (not a GDP issue); they are balance sheet issues.
"We've been enduring cruel treatment for more than 70 years," said Jinshiro Motoyama of a national student group in addressing the demonstrators.
"President Obama may have banished many of the abusive interrogation practices that were done to me, but torture continues at Guantanamo," he said, adding that many of the detainees still there "are as innocent as I was but they have been enduring torture at Guantanamo for over 12 years because of their nationalities, not because of anything they have done".
"When I came here I wasn't expecting very much because I didn't play very well in Brisbane, I wasn't feeling great," said the sixth seed, who has been enduring a virus.
But as a PR professional, I'm fascinated by the reputation meltdown that BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward has been enduring.
Holly's parents had been enduring their own financial struggles.
