Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Carter last Friday solemnly painted his own vision of how the nation can at last conquer inflation and recapture past economic glory. It is a narrow vision, with no bold initiatives to harness the energy and resources of the American people. Instead, it demands they submit passively to "pain" and "discipline." Fifteen times those dolorous syllables rolled from the President's pursed lips...
...question, as always, is who will suffer the pain, who will discipline whom. Carter's answer exhibits his bondage to impotent ideas and powerful interests. His proposals are designed for an old-fashioned inflation caused by excessive demand. This approach allows him to administer the pain to those members of the public least able to fight back, while avoiding any assault on preserves of corporate power actually responsible for much of the rising costs behind the current inflation...
CARTER'S REGIMEN of pain and discipline is designed to ease inflation by slowing the economy, at the price of lost jobs and government programs. But he is accepting this price with little hope of achieving anything but the appearance of action. A "senior Administration official" told The New York Times, "The balancing of the budget will not have an immediate impact on inflation, nor will the other actions." He said the measures were directed at the "long-term aspects of inflation...
...best tracks on the album are by an ensemble called The Brothers, a subgroup of Kuumba tenors and basses. On Side One The Brothers sing a gospel, "One More Day," that achieves the fusion I was talking about, what Tennyson called "pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes...
...overall, in spite of the isolation and pain of his illness, Tony seems quite content with that standard, with his life at Carville...