Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clearly dependent New Hampshire is on this money. Other Governors also will bring the necessary weight in Congress to stop this approach." Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit warned of a "long, hot summer" if Congress votes to chop federal programs that help cities. Said Young: "If there must be pain, let it be spread across the whole budget. Let it be felt in the Defense Department as well as the summer jobs program...
...report that both doctors spotted the error in mid-operation and halted their work. Stranger still, the doctor mistakenly operating on Mrs. Edmondson's thyroid discovered and removed a benign nodule while the doctor mistakenly operating on Mrs. Robinson's vertebrae cured her of an unrelated pain in her leg by somehow relieving pressure on her sciatic nerve...
...effort to ease the pain, the Federal Reserve in June 1978 allowed banks to begin offering any depositor willing to part with a minimum of $10,000 for six months an opportunity to earn a rate of return more or less equal to the money market funds. The new superrate was keyed to the interest that the U.S. Treasury must pay for its weekly sales of six-month bills to finance federal debt. This has helped slow the outflow of deposits, but in the process has forced up the cost of depositor funds to higher levels than ever...
Most alien of all is Mark Linn-Baker's Puck, a nasty demon who sticks his tongue out and rasps at friend and foe. His satyr's outfit and white makeup don't distance him from humankind nearly so much as his utter indifference to pain and suffering in others. When Oberon orders him to undo the effects of his mistake on the lovers and to anoint Lysander's eyes with the potion that will restore his love for Hermia, he nearly fouls up again and gives Demetrius the charm. He says "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" spitefully...
...ever swelling number and proportion of older people. Today nearly 25 million Americans, or 11.2% of the total, are over 65, and the ratio of that bracket is rising sharply. To foreclose senior citizens from society's respect and affection will mean more in the future than pain to the graying population. It will mean serious generational conflict for everybody...