Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pleasure & Pain. Despite the $250 million that he is estimated to have in Swiss banks, Saud's pleasures have lately been somewhat curtailed. He suffers from ulcers and cirrhosis of the liver, has traveled from Beirut to Boston looking for doctors to repair his chronically overworked digestive tract...
...being tough presents its own problems and offers no universal solution. Many youth--including many Black stone Rangers--will gain nothing from extra police power. There are limits to the persuasiveness even of pain. Moreover, being tough often leads authorities to take some action which only makes things worse. Excessive force--"brutality" -- embitters Rangers. Similarly, they gain no great respect for the law when slapped with exorbitant bonds for minor offenses or when they wind up on the raw end of a police "deal" --exchanging their guns, for example, for reduced charges in court; only the charges...
Reagan plans a 65% increase in overall state income tax collections-along with boosts in general sales, whisky, cigarette and franchise taxes-to raise the $946 million needed to balance his record $5.06 billion budget. He concedes that withholding, in addition to easing the pain of that wallop, would bring him a number of economic advantages. There would be a "one-shot" windfall because Californians would, in effect, be paying next year's taxes in advance. There might also be a "recurring windfall" of some $20 million a year from citizens-mostly from "those least able to afford...
...Grim grin" is the way some of his stiff-lipped countrymen seem to pronounce his name, offering a capsule description of the man's work. Graham Greene's fiction over the past four decades has alternated between pain and painful pleasure. He has explored the depths of damnation-and salvation-but with gusto, he has also turned out masterly, this-worldly entertainments. Perhaps the difference between the two is not really as great as it sometimes seems...
...shrinking world and the revival of the Catholic ethic are desirable goals for McLuhan, he is apparently not at all sure that they can be achieved quickly and without pain. The danger arises from mankind's obsession with the past. We look at life through a rear view mirror, McLuhan says, and we are unprepared for the roadblocks ahead. The real hero of Understanding Media and The Medium is the Message is James Joyce...