Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be at the polls all day," he says. "At some point it becomes a moral issue. If you really believe that animals feel pain...for me, the pain the animals suffer isn't worth the thousand dollars the farmer might save...
...base of blue-collar Democrats and an enclave of wealthy liberals make Forbes vulnerable. But he retains his conservative base with proposals to end parole for armed criminals and grant middle-class tax breaks. On the Armed Services Committee he has fought for defense-conversion jobs to ease the pain of military-contract cutbacks...
...that actually voted is even smaller. In 1992, a presidential election year, only 28.9 percent of Hispanics eligible to vote did so. In 1994, the year we saw a Republican Congress for the first time in 40 years, only 19.1 percent of eligible Hispanic voters actually did. Clearly, the pain inflicted on the Latino community is much its own doing...
...cause injury, when a dog named Cindy was caught in three such traps for four days, her injuries were so severe that she was put to sleep. To escape the traps, Cindy had tried to chew off her paws. "She was crying as she did it from the pain," says Joy Bannister, the Fall River dog officer who found...
Banning leghold traps and hounding would keep countless animals from needless pain and suffering. This fundamental point is lost on some opponents of Question One. "Hunting is sort of like if you have a crop of carrots and the crop is coming up too thick and you have to weed some of them out so the rest will survive," says Melbourne Crouse, director of the Gun Owners Action League. "I don't think there is anything wrong or cruel about...