Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More from Less. One suggested way to realign the design would be for cities and suburbs to combine their spending and tax collecting, for the sake of efficiency and economy. States could also raise more revenue with less pain if they abandoned most nuisance taxes in favor of income taxes, which grow along with the economy, and they could lower sales taxes by reducing the number of exempted goods, such as food and drugs. Economists reckon that with such changes the states last year could have increased their sales-and incometax revenues by $5 billion. Of course, the states...
...hour between curtain's fall and press's roll. So he began attending preview performances-and even a dress rehearsal or two. That gave Kauffmann time to ruminate for an extra day or so before deadline. It also gave producers and the other daily critics a pain in the neck. The producers claimed that their shows were not ready for reviewers' eyes at previews, and the critics made unseemly comments to the effect that any fellow who couldn't dash off a sharp review in an hour ought to go paint gold-leaf letters in some...
...been run, deliberately cutting several small, transverse arteries, to open them up so that they can receive the new blood supply. Ten of these patients, said Dr. Randolph M. Ferlic, who suffered from crippling angina even when they were sitting down and not exerting themselves, are now free of pain; seven have been back at work for periods up to a year or more...
...vaulting over garbage cans with a pipe from a TV antenna. "Sometimes it was so bad that he could not straighten up in the morning," remembers his mother, who tried to help with massages. Doctors at first thought he had just a muscular ailment, so Pennel ignored the pain, went on to set an outdoor record...
...later broken by Fred Hansen-and won a place on the U.S. team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Three weeks before the games began he "did something wrong" in practice and the pain became unbearable. The best he could manage in the Olympics was eleventh, and he did not vault again for eight months...