Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...budget might lead to lower interest rates, helping anybody who borrows to buy a car or house. Fannie Mae estimates families might save $100 a month on each $100,000 borrowed. A strong case could be made, too, that adopting the recommendations of the Boskin Commission would spread the pain of balancing the budget as widely and mildly as possible. The elderly would still have their Social Security pensions raised next year, though by an average $13 a month rather than $21. A median family of four would pay $37 in extra taxes the first year, according to the accounting...
Huml as played by Sam Baum '98, does not particularly deserve the audience's sympathy. Baum accentuates the self-absorption and cruelly noncommittal nature of Huml's character. Throughout the play he shows utter indifference to the pain of his wife Vlasta (Kathleen Conroy '98) and his mistress Renata (Jacquie Soohen), both of whom make the apparently unreasonable demand of a faithful relationship...
...hours, so it's kind of a pain, but once I get out there it's usually a lot of fun," says Stephen J. Lukasewycz...
...marijuana are often ingenious, sometimes fervent, and in their essence, when applied to marijuana use by adolescents, dangerously wrong. The stage of development through which a child passes from ages 12 to 18 is critical. Adolescence is the labor that gives birth to the adult. It is a painful, indispensable process. Adolescence quite precisely requires the pain and difficulty of learning in order to come out well. Among the lessons, of course, are how to love and support others and how to be responsible...
...seems there has been a mistake. Pot is not the drug of youth but rather of old age, the threshold of death--a little buzz before Kevorkian. It is a dulling drug, certainly useful as a palliative for the elderly. The young don't need to have their pain dulled. They need to learn from it. Perhaps baby-boomer parents, as they grow old, should reserve the world's marijuana supply for themselves and for what will no doubt be the gaudy and self-important theatrics of their dying, and encourage their children to be satisfied with becoming better adults...