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...before you wince in pain and cry out that we have already been through this, spent years agonizing over Fair Harvard’s most controversial lyrical change, rest assured: This is not a chauvinist attempt to restore the patriarchal language of our dear hymn. I simply want to suggest correcting one glaring, but easily fixed grammatical and connotative mistake in one of our university’s most cherished traditions...
...time will take care of itself,” Saretsky added. “In Dan’s case, the time just took care of itself.” But what characterized Chenoweth this season was his gutsy attitude towards running. He showed no hesitation in testing his pain threshold in the pursuit of victory. At the outdoor Heptagonals at Yale, Chenoweth fell at around the 2000-meter mark in the 5000-meter run. Instinctively, the freshman picked himself up and, sitting dead last, made his way through the pack. At one point Chenoweth took the outright lead before...
...paying with credit cards less painful? When we pay with cash we consume and pay at the same time, but when we pay with a credit card we are decoupling the timing of consumption from payment. We eat now and pay later, making the pain of paying lower and the enjoyment from the meal higher. We can even push the pain of paying to a more extreme level. Imagine that when you step into the restaurant the waiter tells you that the average diner eats about 50 bites and spends about $50 in this restaurant, making it a dollar...
...spending. This might be a good dieting approach, but not a way to enjoy spending your money. What this idea shows is that the way you pay has important psychological implications on how you view the money you are spending—what we call the “pain of paying”—even though on a rational level, we all know that money is fungible...
...pain of paying related to the stimulus packages? If different payment methods have significant effects on the ease with which people will spend their money, shouldn’t the government administer tax rebates in such a way that minimizes the pain of paying...