Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday morning, a tall, dignified man emerged from his home in Northwest Washington, D.C., and began to walk slowly through the rain toward the end of his career in Jimmy Carter's Administration. As he made his way, he leaned on a cane to ease the pain of gout in his right foot. A cluster of reporters were waiting, and while he said nothing of substance, he was polite?he is always polite. Then he climbed slowly into his limousine and began his final official trip to the Oval Office of President Carter. The two men talked for 17 minutes...
Other workers are not so lucky. For self-employed carpenters, roofers and homebuilding contractors, who often do not even qualify for state unemployment benefits, the loss of work can mean immediate and stunning financial pain. Yet for everyone, from furloughed vice presidents to laid-off warehouse clerks, the lack of a job in a culture that virtually assigns a person his identity by the work he does can be an insidious, soul-destroying experience. Says an unemployed mechanic, Jim Burton of Baltimore: "You lose a week's pay and you die a little...
...deeply religious. She traces her faith to an incident eight years ago, when a classmate committed suicide. "I felt such a profound sense of loss, such pain. I figured he had to be somewhere else, and though I wasn't sure about God, when I prayed the pain stopped," she recounts...
Critics of alternative punishment may imagine that it is not truly punitive. But they underrate the pain of being utterly in the power of the state and closely restricted in personal activity. Under such circumstances, there is a decisive loss of liberty. Perhaps society's main gain from alternative punishment is the elimination of the risk of nondangerous offenders being turned vicious by sheer exposure to prison life. The truth is that a great many convicts would offer no violent risk to society if they were at large. Perhaps half of all prisoners are clearly dangerous, though various experts...
...works of that little known period. From his desk in the Fogg, Welch composed a letter to the director of the British Library reference division, the caretaker of one of the two great works of the early Safavid period, asking for his cooperation. "I thought they would scream with pain and say 'What do you mean?' " Welch says...