Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though sources were readily available, however, the correspondents found their interviews a sobering and depressing experience. Says Detroit's Paul Witteman: "Visiting soup kitchens and day-labor offices, and interviewing people who were suffering or under stress, made me feel as if I was intruding on their pain. But since I arrived in Detroit last summer, this bureau has been reporting almost weekly on one or another aspect of unemployment; it has become our major sub-beat, primarily because of the three-year recession-make that depression-in the automobile industry...
...doubly troublesome that the ranks of the jobless are growing at a time when many of the cushions softening the pain of unemployment have been deflated. Reaganomics has whittled away at unemployment compensation and has tightened eligibility rules. At the height of the 1973-75 recession, for example, more than 75% of the 8.4 million jobless Americans received benefits; last December only 37% of those out of work got unemployment compensation. By eliminating 300,000 public service jobs provided by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (GETA), the Reagan Administration shut off a source of work that has been both...
NOSTALGIA can be very pleasant--as a condiment that adds texture, coating, and muting to the surface of events. That The Curse of an Aching Heart, William Alfred's new Broadway play, is so uncritically nostalgic--not even his characters' pain seems to dampen the affection of the playwright summoning up Irish Brooklyn and the 1930s--should not be enough to warrant the unfavorable critical reaction the play has drawn. Sure, the effect on audiences is anything but the slick, lively finish that spells success for so many current musicals; nor does Alfred go in for the angst-packed, Freud...
...taken from an Errol Flynn movie, Wallenberg once stood up to a German officer attempting to round up Jews for a march, saying, "If you want to take them, you will have to shoot me first." If Eichmann was the kind of man who could relish the anguished pain of millions of people, Wallenberg was a man who could not bear to witness the pain of one individual. It seems as though Wallenberg--who, as a well-to-do Gentile, could have sat through the war in comparative comfort in Sweden--felt personally responsible for helping the Jews. Before...
...consensus is that students would prefer to "spread the pain evenly' by taking on more jobs and loans, rather than lose the assurance that all accepted applicants will get the and they need, the College will have to consider possibilities like establishing its own loan program to supplement the $2500 per student limit and other restrictions on federal loans, Jewett said...