Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that appear to be circular and discouraging in the short run may turn out to be moving in a clear direction in the long run. Those of us who were taught the cheerful American notion that progress is linear and hierarchical, for instance, may have had to learn with pain in the '70s that no worthwhile battle can be fought and won only once...
...them and concentrate on their growing families and civilian careers. But when 300 Long Island, N.Y., veterans, wives and children met at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bay Shore, they exchanged tales of a terror that has deformed their lives. Jim Albrigtsen, 30, is in almost constant pain from pus-filled lumps under his skin. Mike Ryan, 34, has recovered from a similar affliction, but his eight-year-old daughter Kerry has 18 birth defects, including missing bones in her right arm and intestinal malformations. Ronald De Boer, 31, has a healthy three-year-old daughter but doubts...
...former soldiers are united by more than their pain; they gathered to hear a report on what may be the biggest product-liability case ever filed, and surely one of the most unusual. With some 3,000 other Viet Nam veterans across the country, they are plaintiffs in a suit against five companies that made a defoliant called Agent Orange, which the veterans believe is the cause of their maladies...
...Harberger are now paying for Bok's lack of foresight. The effort to stop the appointment, to undo the mistake of the moment, is taking up faculty time, HIID staff time and Bok's time. And Harberger is paying a high personal price for Bok's mistake in the pain of being publicly denounced by his Harvard colleagues and by Harvard students as an immoral and narrow-minded...
...they share. The trouble with Barris' shows, at least from the point of view of a games connoisseur, is their self-consciousness. The bad taste is too rehearsed; Barris winks at his own jokes. Worse, the contestants expect humiliation, indeed court it, and therefore feel pleasure rather than pain when they are made to look ridiculous. That is why Barns' series lack the lifelike excitement of true games: they are really preprogrammed sitcoms...