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Word: paines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe and the U.S., the countries of Eastern Europe lie along a prime trafficking route. In Communist Yugoslavia, which is not part of the Soviet bloc, 40% of those convicted of narcotics smuggling are foreigners. In Czechoslovakia, potentially addictive drugs are readily available: more than 90 sedatives and pain killers can be bought without a prescription. Users mix the drugs in water to produce a cocktail called pernaik (literally, gingerbread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Shooting Up Under a Red Star | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

After performing the bizarre rite on Beacon Hill, Rupert said, "There's a little blood and pain...but no risk...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: THE BEST OF 1986 | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...will remain after the new layoffs. It has been a revolutionary development for a company that once offered lifetime job security. Of the 27,400 jobs to be cut under the new plan, 10,900 are designated as management positions and 16,500 are nonmanagement jobs. "The pain will not be felt at just the bottom," Olson emphasized. "It will be painful all around." No division -- not even venerable Bell Laboratories -- will be spared. Since only about 30% to 40% of the employees targeted for termination have been informed, much of the work force remains in suspense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulling the Belt Tighter At At&T | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...USUALLY A pretty relaxed guy. When strangers deliberately inflict physical pain upon me for no apparent reason, I just say, "It's cool." Yet as an undergraduate at Harvard, I have come across a few things that make me want to kill, or, at the very least, hurt. The most horrid of these is the Harvard Hiss...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Stop, Before It's Too Late | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

...fully exploring her own role in her fate. But as a commentator, Kirkland is at her best, exposing the many indignities faced by the dancer in an attempt to be an artist. The book is an insightful look at the vulnerability of the creative temperment, and the exploitation and pain which can result...

Author: By Ellen R. Pinchuk, | Title: Danse Macabre | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

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