Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Australian police, however, dismissed the notion, and signs of inner pain quickly emerged. A bottle of Prozac, the antidepressant, was found in the singer's hotel room. And on his last night, his father Kelland saw a young man in some turmoil. Professionally, Hutchence had watched INXS's last album fail, and suffered the indignity of young rockers like Noel Gallagher of Oasis dismissing him as a has-been. During dinner at Flavour of India, the elder Hutchence told Michael, "Son, I'm worried about you." The singer replied that he was "fine," but barely touched his food, opting...
...receivers wanted a middleman to give them cover. For all the embarrassment that attaches to it, a bid to the IMF allows recipient governments to claim that an outside force is compelling them to make unpopular but necessary reforms. Donor countries can also avoid taking the blame for the pain that IMF requirements impose...
Applying to the fund means lost economic sovereignty, which is no small matter for any country, especially a developing one in which colonialism is still a fresh memory. The fund's recommendations also mean pain for the poor and working class when governments adopt the fund's austere recommendations. Those usually include slashing budget deficits, which often means higher taxes and lower social spending, an end to subsidies on things like food and fuel, and privatization of inefficient state-owned industries, with the inevitable worker layoffs...
...just the poor who flinch when they hear the letters IMF. The arrival of the IMF can also mean pain for economic elites, who are expected to dismantle the business culture that made them rich even while it dragged their nations into crisis. In the Asian Pacific, where much of the current trouble was brought on by buddy-buddy capitalism and closed-door banking practices, the fund wants more stringent borrowing rules, more open bank reporting and freer trade policies...
...When they have to, however, both can instantly become powerful leaders on the brink of destruction. LeBow's Tiresias sends chills through the audience with his dark fore-shadowings to the giggling Maenads. Likewise, the perpetually-talented Epstein manages to make his bitter tirade against Agave ring with the pain of a noble ruler disappointing his people, yet he also lashes out in furious anguish at his childlike daughter for the mess she and her disbelieving son have created...