Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argues that finance work is necessarily humanitarian because the "invisible hand" will soothe and heal all. But the invisible hand knows no morality and doesn't care for people's pain. Though the numbers (stock points, profit margins, etc.) by which investment bankers make decisions are amoral, the decisions they make can determine whether working people have the jobs that allow them to feed their families and whether communities thrive or atrophy. The investment bankers and consultants guiding the merger of Mobil and Exxon into one great leviathan seem little concerned with the 9,000 factory workers expected...
Armed men have surrounded the hilltop hideaway at 255 Ridgecrest Road again. The fugitive, a break-in specialist, won't come out. "I want the s.o.b. to feel some pain," special agent Steve Searles tells two cops with pump shotguns. "I want you to put some hurt on him." Nothing happens when Searles fires his pistol. Nor when he bangs loudly on the porch with a baseball bat. He tries pepper spray, yelling, "Hey, hey, come on out of there! You can't stay there...
...think it's a pretty big time commitment," Chen says. "I'm sure it's a pain in the butt...
...hammer... A woman who sat in front of BOB VILA on an airline flight is seeking $127,000 from the world's most famous handyman for pain and mental anguish. Carol Berger claims that Vila, host of Home Again, took a break from pounding dry wall to pound the back of her seat with his foot and fist during a flight from Denver to Eugene, Ore. She didn't mention why. Vila issued a statement calling the allegation "baseless" and says he has never met Berger. Maybe he was just annoyed that her seat and tray table were...
...there's no point in being stoic about pain. Researchers now believe suffering only sensitizes the body to more suffering and prolongs your recovery period. So don't hesitate to take your pain medicine. A growing number of hospitals are even giving pain-killers to patients before their surgery. Doing so seems to shorten hospital stays by as much as a couple of days...