Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fast food meets French food at the more affordable Au Bon Pain, smack in the middle of the Square The varied croissants are quite good, but sandwiches are overpriced and the bread (the restaurant's name notwithstanding) tends to be card board...
...easy," he said. "The fact is that millions of people will never get these same jobs back." He was into his homework now. Government could not just stand by, he said. There had to be some kind of massive plan to help workers through the years of pain ahead. The plan would have to pay for itself eventually, of course, to satisfy the fiscally conservative Glenn. He is more liberal on social issues like abortion and busing. Last week he picked up the endorsement of liberal Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, who made a point of describing Glenn...
Today, he says, "the dark cloud has lifted. I've regained a good perspective on the fact that I enjoyed being here.... There will be pain for a long time. It takes a while to work itself out of your body, but I'm on my way." He doesn't mourn what has been lost: "The fellowship, for instance, would have been exciting, but the job I have now probably wouldn't have been there next year. I'm content with how things turned...
...avid collector since the age of seven--she grew up in Florida surrounded by insects--Bowers still goes out into the fields of Western Massachusetts once or twice a week to collect checkerspots. "These guys are a real pain in the neck," she says, pointing affectionately to the orange and black striped furry caterpillars stacked in plates in her lab. Checkerspots take a full year to mature from the larval stage to the butterfly stage, and Bowers must collect specimens every week or so in order to follow the insects throughout their life cycle...
...this tentatively merging position in the debate may never pain widespread acceptance. In the first place, the majority of American firms are not likely to abandon their apolitical stance in South Africa. While they perceive the possibility of long-term risks to their investments if change does not come, they also believe that painful short-term costs may ensue from antagonizing Pretoria. In addition, because nearly all institutional investors appear to be satisfied with rather straightforward policy guidelines on the South Africa issue--including adherence to the Sullivan Principles, and refusal to make loans directly to the South African government...