Word: paines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...used to e-tickets, many of us remain wary of checking in for a flight online, and still end up arriving at the airport a couple of hours before a scheduled departure. To ease the tedium of waiting (and retain the loyalty of sophisticated passengers), airlines have taken unprecedented pains over their airport lounges in recent years. Not so long ago, first-class and business-class travelers were shown [an error occurred while processing this directive] to drab rooms with nothing but a self-serve bar and rack of newspapers to recommend them. These days, they're more likely...
...Love is a many-splendored thing. Day 3 and my husband has a new refrain: "If you really loved me, you'd take me away from this." Jeans avers that guests often feel "a little low on the third day. I tell them the pain will be forgotten by Saturday when they will look fabulous and feel full of energy. It's tough love, really." As it happens, I'm getting into the swing after shaking off a caffeine-withdrawal headache. Only one person in the retreat's four-year history has ever quit. And the yoga is wonderful...
...watched their games every weekend, wasted work hours reading blogs about them, emotionally invested myself in their travails. But now my two beloved teams, Barcelona and Arsenal, must play each other in the final of the uefa Champions League in Paris this week. What glory! What pain! This is the sporting equivalent of those thought experiments about desert-island cannibalism. Which of my loves will I be forced to eat? I have, over the years, constructed a theory that linked Arsenal and Barcelona in an alliance of virtue. Like the cartoon superheroes that reside together in the Hall of Justice...
America's energy infrastructure was running at full capacity before Katrina hit, and the fact that so much of that capacity is concentrated in Hurricane Alley means more pain at the pump--especially if another big storm hits or events in the Middle East disrupt supply. Katrina sidelined nine refineries that account for about 12% of U.S. capacity. By the end of last week, the storm had prevented production of 547 million bbl. of crude, a 25-day supply. Offshore oil production in the Gulf accounts for nearly 10% of U.S. daily consumption. Worse yet, natural-gas production also shut...
...nation’s tax burden—so much so that Bush could cut taxes in a big way for the wealthiest while still claiming, correctly, that he was shifting taxes to the wealthy. Bush covered up his gift to the uber-elite by dishing out a little pain to the kinda-elite...