Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just Brazil. They're all part of one asset class now, and investors aren't distinguishing between any of them." And the dramatic drop in the U.S. markets--after months of talk about a "Goldilocks economy"--demonstrated once again that markets hate nothing so much as uncertainty. Russia's pain evidently would also be the world...
...case history about a sadness too many will recognize: one person sets about destroying himself with addiction, and another gets addicted to trying to help him. The black hole is only deepened when, as Verghese writes, you subscribe to the physician's illusion that "if he attended to the pain of others, it would take care...
...what must be really nettling Burton is the very Clintonesque, pain-in-my-marriage remarks he's been forced to make before the piece has been published -- or even turned in. "Now I want to tell you: If something comes out, that you read about, that you think Danny shouldn't have done, I will own up to it," Burton said stand-uppishly, today. "I won't lie about it. I will tell the truth." How inspiring...
When he admitted that he had misled people, even his wife, his voice caught. For the first time, I felt his pain rather than his anger, and I fought the lump in my throat. I wanted more...
...adultery is a miserable way to start a vacation on Martha's Vineyard. And he badly abused his loyal staff members who, as the price of serving him and his vision for America, now have major legal bills to deal with. And I suppose that Monica Lewinsky, in her pain, has promised herself never again to get romantically involved with a sitting President. And I imagine it has dawned on Mr. Starr that he may go down in history as a rather small and obsessive figure who spent $40 million for a stained dress. And I imagine that...