Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flurbiprofen is a more potent version of ibuprofen, which was approved in May for over the counter sales and was used in prescription form since 1974 to treat arthritis pain and other problems...
Nuclear war is a low-grade chronic dread in the back of the mind, Soviet churlishness a high-grade pain in the neck. And yet some deep though elusive process of healing seems to have occurred over a period of years in the American psychology, and the Fourth of July, 1984, may have been one more expression...
...this is very much an album in need of what the record business calls tour support. The most interesting song-or the most curious, at any rate-is Be Not Always, a ballad written and performed by Michael with injections of mournful strings. A sort of nonspecific cry of pain against both personal cruelty and international aggression, the song seems intended as a rejoinder to those who think Michael makes mostly good-time make-out music. As such, it stands in marked contrast to the rest of Victory, whose final cut, Body (written and performed by Marlon), is the ideal...
...During the 1981 campaign, Finance Minister Yoram Aridor played what his opponents called "election economics" by cutting excise taxes and import duties on foreign items like autos and color TVs. The Begin government then tried to ease the pain of inflation by broadening indexation and encouraging spending. Losing confidence in the shekel, Israelis increasingly turned to the American greenback. "Our national currency is now the dollar," Ezer Weizman, Begin's former Defense Minister, who is now heading his own ticket, charged last week. "This is a disgrace...
...cycle"-no beginning and no end-insinuates an indeterminateness in the relationship between the two men: Someone may have started this, but who can tell and what does it matter? (Nor is this the first time Jackson has pressed the cycle image into dubious service. Remember his "cycle of pain" in Lebanon, as if Navy Lieut. Robert Goodman, the flyer for the American peace-keeping force that had lost more than 250 men to terrorist attack, and President Hafez Assad, who had at least acquiesced in that attack, were equal partners in crime?) Having framed the issue in these terms...