Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shame is that in the vast majority of such cases, financial pain is avoidable. While flood insurance is routinely excluded from almost all policies, it is widely available--on request--and at rates that make a lot of sense. Why don't more people have it? One problem is that they don't understand how insurers define flood. I'll get to that, and, trust me, Webster would choke on the description. An even bigger problem is that insurance agents have little incentive to write flood coverage. Meanwhile, many agents and local officials are so ill informed that they mislead...
...luck of the Irish has always been their misery, at least where Ireland's writers have been concerned. Suffering makes for better stories than comfort does. Pain turns pages. And the best happy endings follow unhappy beginnings. (Although not always; see following review...
Stephen Jay Gould's article on smart genes [THE I.Q. GENE?, Sept. 13] was informative and clarifying, but when did he make the memory association between "a bee's buzz and the pain of its bite"? Or are American bees just that bit further up the dental evolutionary scale than our local species? AMANDA STILTZ Cardiff, Wales...
...When incidents like this occur, the natural response is, 'Winthrop students could not have stooped so low as to inflict such senseless, deep pain on fellow students,'" he said...
...symbol of kick-ass country or folk. Squeezing into the sappily labeled side show, "Small Victory: Songs of Faith and Redemption," I discovered a batch of female folk artists who, even in their sometimes cliched anguish over lost love, came out as women who knew the value and pain of an honest day's labor. All too ready to dismiss this as another whine-fest on my way in, I instead was caught up with the crowd in wildly applauding the willowy Dee Carstensen strumming her harp siren-style and wailing in a thin voice reminiscent of Sixpence None...