Word: paines
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...which every woman leans. He feels as though women are his property. This insidious notion of male possession of women limits a woman's domain to that area determined and approved by her male owner. Thus many men take offense to a rape not because the woman is in pain but because his property is damaged goods. His woman is dirty; his ability to protect her has been challenged and found lacking. Furthermore, when a man views women as powerless property, he directly curtails the quality he can achieve in a male-female relationship. Relations between men and women will...
...taxes so they can provide public housing and bilingual education. In the suburbs, where people own expensive homes and the major policy questions are how many swimming pools the new high school needs, many communities are already at 2 1/2 per cent. For them, the referendum means no pain, only a chance to publicly display their gleeful conservatism...
Revlon, a leading cosemetics company used the Draize test on 2692 rabbits last year. Revlon admitted to not using any pain reliever before or after administering the test--which can cause blindness in rabbits, according to a CEASE report...
Reagan says that things have grown so unbearable that even the misery index is inadequate to measure the economic pain people now feel under Carter. He proposes a "family suffering index," which adds to unemployment the annual rate of increase in the costs of mortgages, gasoline and food. The F.S.I, stands at 77%, more than triple the level that prevailed when Carter took office. Arresting as it is, however, Reagan's yardstick has no more genuine economic validity than redefining the consumer price index so as to include only those items that go up the steepest...
Throughout history, dreams have remained some of the most talked about, written about and least understood human phenomena. Their bizarre manifestations are sources of comfort and pain, happiness and terror. Dreams temporarily permit us to escape the confines of our bodies, engage in private, surrealistic melodramas and awaken the next morning with no visible effects. But why do we dream? So far, all explanations have basically been conjectures...