Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore John Doran led Baldas late in the first set when he felt a pull in his quadriceps muscle. Doran played through the pain to take the first set 6-4 but barely able to move, he dropped the next two sets, 6-1 and 6-0, to put Harvard in a 3-0 hole from which it would not escape. Georgia sealed the win with Toledo Corrales's 6-2, 7-5 victory over Majmudar at No. 4, but Harvard's three ongoing matches at the time were decidedly in favor of the Crimson...
...film in which the megamanic star is an actor, for Pete's sake. But The Truman Show is the best kind of risk: make a good movie and see who comes. And Carrey will be waiting for them, with a performance of profound charm, innocence, vulnerability and pain. The early word on Truman is so positive that one exhibitor dares to invoke a hit 1994 film about another man out of his time: "This picture has Gump written all over...
Indonesia's economy has taken a hard fall, and no level of society has escaped the pain. The population of more than 200 million people has seen per capita income drop from $1,200 to $300 almost overnight. Tinted-glass towers in the business district of what was last year one of Asia's hottest cities for investors now stand virtually empty. Corporations have no way of repaying the $70 billion they borrowed from foreign banks, and much business has simply ceased. At the other end of the economic scale, poor households have no way of paying the escalating prices...
Vajpayee takes it, just a week after assuming leadership on March 19, bringing into his confidence only two Cabinet members. A quick internal study concludes that India would suffer manageable pain as a result of international economic penalties. Vajpayee picks an auspicious date for the test: May 11, the same Buddhist holiday when the 1974 nuclear test went...
...business travelers tighten their belts, the hospitality industry feels the pain. Hotel-occupancy rates declined across almost all of Asia last year, according to a report by hotel-industry analyst PKF Consulting in Hong Kong. Asian airlines are struggling through their first serious slump since the industry took off in the 1970s. They are laying off staff members, canceling routes and airplane orders, and cutting back on in-flight food and beverage services. Even in economically buoyant China, the going is no longer as good as it was. The Middle Kingdom relies heavily on Southeast Asian foreign investment, and industry...