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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later suffer from backaches. The rate may be even higher for journalists. They spend long, sedentary hours crouched over typewriters and telephones, wedged immobile in the seats of planes and press buses, and trapped by deadlines that elevate stress levels past the danger point: practically a prescription for back pain. Yet of the TIME editors, writers and correspondents who contributed to this week's story, only a few confessed to back problems. Medicine Writer Anastasia Toufexis, who wrote the story, and Adrianne Jucius, the reporter-researcher who assisted her, approached the subject with pain-free objectivity. All of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 14, 1980 | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...certain level of physical fitness, especially as they get older." Linda Stern Rubin of TIME'S Midwest bureau found Detroit engineers and designers conducting surveys and motion tests to determine ways to make automobile seats more comfortable. The Los Angeles bureau's Joseph Pilcher visited several "pain clinics," where such unconventional therapies such as acupuncture and electrical stimulation help patients deal with back pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 14, 1980 | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...Begin to the Prime Minister's office. At first Begin insisted he wanted to stay and take part in the vote, but colleagues assured him there was no need. As he waited for the ambulance to arrive, Begin joked with friends, but then appeared to be in pain. He told Cabinet Secretary Aryeh Naor, who had been hospitalized with a heart attack only a month earlier: "You just came out. Now I'm going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Stricken Begin Holds On | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...hind legs and heaved the stone at the predator. Startled to see this usually four-footed prey erect, the tiger cautiously retreated. But the ape-man's triumph was costly. Unaccustomed to the abrupt, upright position, he was left doubled over in agony with a piercing pain in his lower back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Aching Back! | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...little doubt that, when man's ancestors first learned to stand on hind legs, they exposed themselves to aches in the back that have been plaguing their descendants ever since. Today Ramapithecus' spinal distress is experienced millions of times a day around the world. Indeed, after headaches, pain in the back-usually the lower -is man's most common and intractable physical complaint. It is also the object of intensive investigation by doctors into new ways of curing this most ancient of ailments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Aching Back! | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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