Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another potential pain for Mosenergo shareholders was narrowly avoided last spring. Boris Nemtsov, Russia's reformist First Deputy Premier, personally intervened to block a planned limitation of shareholders' voting rights as well as a new stock issue that would have substantially diluted the holdings of foreign investors. Infringement of the rights of minority shareholders has been a recurrent problem in Russia, and one that President Boris Yeltsin's free market-oriented government continues to battle...
...runny nose of a cold or the scratchiness of a strep throat. "You can't sleep, you can't eat, you lose weight because your mood's so blue." Schwendener, 33, suffered her first bout of depression as a teenager. She started taking Prozac 10 years ago. "The pain," she says, "sort of evaporated over time." By the age of 21, Beth Herwig, now an executive assistant in St. Louis, Mo., tipped the scales at more than 500 lbs. At 29, after years of yo-yo dieting, she was carrying 545 lbs. on her 5-ft. 4-in. frame. Then...
...sleeping pill. (A bad batch of L-tryptophan killed several people in the late 1980s and effectively killed the craze.) In another experiment, researchers discovered that when they stimulated raphe cells to release extra serotonin not in the brain but in the spinal cord, test subjects experienced pain relief...
...There are times when I can be a pain in the ass," says JENNIFER JASON LEIGH. She's referring to her technique in movies that are adapted from novels. "I'll just take every page of the novel that refers to my part and paste it to the corresponding page in the script." When the novels in question are such highly regarded works as Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres and Henry James' Washington Square, which open within a few weeks of each other, this strategy can be a little intimidating for the directors. The two movies allowed Leigh...
...blame the paparazzi. We can blame the drunk driver. We can blame the press for adding to her pain by publishing pictures. We can blame ourselves for reading the tabloids. What we cannot do is get back Diana. YUKO ITATSU Tokyo...