Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with implants, small bags that are inserted under the muscle of the chest wall and filled with either silicone gel or saline solution. The inflation must be done gradually over a period of weeks to allow time for the muscle and skin to stretch, a process that can cause discomfort and sometimes lead to infections...
...here to stay. But then, all of a sudden -- zap! -- it is not enough anymore to make you happy. You say to yourself, 'Now what? I know that I don't have anything much better to do, but I am going to quit.' I wanted to go again for discomfort, to create the old hunger, to get into acting. Because I knew it was going to happen...
...point in rendering her decision. While she acknowledged that sentencing Milken to community service would permit him "to work productively with others," she asserted that "a prison term is required for the purposes of general deterrence." Moreover, she added, Milken had committed "serious crimes warranting serious punishment and the discomfort and opprobrium of being removed from society...
...really want to save the earth, we should be ready to sacrifice. We should brace to feel discomfort in our check-books and a decline in our overall standard of living...
...hate fashion too. It's a tyrannical muse, demanding time, energy, money, discomfort. There are mornings when I look at my well-stocked closets and have nothing to wear. My husband can't understand this. The only time he has nothing to wear is when all his shirts are at the laundry. There is something so enviously simple about male dressing: a suit, a shirt, a tie. Our notions of how these should look don't change much with the seasons, and barely with the generations. So how wrong can a man go? How unattractive can he feel...