Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every Sunday I'd say, 'I'll confess.' I couldn't. I'd go into the confession box and choke on the words. When you abuse your child, it seems like you're watching someone else do it. There is guilt, horror, pain. Society need not hate us. We hate ourselves. No one hates an abusing parent more than the abusing parent...
...pinning the blame on an adult is even trickier. Children are understandably reluctant to accuse their father or mother. When they do, the parent often denies any wrongdoing-and law-enforcement authorities find it difficult to take the word of a child over that of an adult. Despite the pain involved, various counseling groups encourage open confrontations as a means of getting the guilty to face up to the problem...
...when doctors, drug manufacturers and patients were urging fast action. The Reagan Administration set out to make the FDA move faster. Now some critics charge that the FDA has become a tool of the drug industry. They cite the FDA's approval in 1982 of Oraflex, an arthritis pain reliever, despite evidence that its side effects might be highly toxic. In the first three weeks, 64,000 U.S. prescriptions were written. But after 61 deaths in Britain had been linked to the drug, the manufacturer withdrew the product. Critics also note that the FDA's relaxation of rules...
...hostile land. The goddess did not guess the damage her meddling would cause to Aeneas' reputation. But Fitzgerald's translation makes vivid the sufferings of both Dido and her anointed suitor: "Duty-bound,/ Aeneas, though he struggled with desire/ To calm and comfort her in all her pain." And he, "shaken still/ With love of her, yet took the course heaven gave him/ And went back to the fleet." However paraphrased, this brand of heroism is easier to admire than love...
...paper in her pink peignoir. Now Palmer can be seen in his underwear on billboards, but seldom in uniform on a mound. Pestered by various miseries, Palmer was in the minor leagues last week tuning up for the stretch drive. Ballplayers are notoriously brave about one another's pain, but some Oriole players suspect that his pride and vanity require that Palmer be absolutely perfect now to pitch, and a few wonder if his uniform has been retired already-with...