Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barons fretted about falling prices last week, they suffered new pain from an old wound. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a lower- court decision requiring Exxon, the largest U.S. oil company, to make a $2.1 billion refund for overcharges to customers. Since it would be impossible to track down all the wronged customers, the money will be given to state governments for such projects as insulating public buildings and helping the poor with utility bills...
Croissants baked by the French bakery Au Bon Pain in an average week...
...wallet was stolen at Au Bon Pain at 3 p.m. Sunday. The estimated value of the loss...
...shrieks reverberating through Washington last week were considerably louder than the murmuring of some doomed oysters, that was because the victims are larger and more numerous and more sensitive to threats of pain. Congressional oratory turned to images of mayhem. "Today's cuts are like trimming your nails," said New York Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer. "What is coming will be like chopping off your hand." Pennsylvania Democrat William Gray, chairman of the House Budget Committee, spoke even more gorily to the New York Times of "the amputation of both arms in 1987," and Senator Gary Hart of Colorado predicted...
...undergone one, and perhaps two, kidney transplants. He is constantly medicated, and his face shows it, usually being either drawn or puffed up from the effects of drugs. When Marcos appears at campaign rallies, he is often carried on the shoulders of guards, and he visibly flinches from pain. In the course of his long, rambling campaign speeches, his voice frequently cracks and rasps. Nonetheless, he still manages to muster the will to continue. Warns a Western diplomat: "This is still a formidable political figure...