Word: painful
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...With a 12-year career that crossed those of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Bill Werber, 100, won a World Series title with the Cincinnati Reds in 1940. He played until 1942, fighting pain from a toe injury acquired eight years earlier from kicking a bucket in frustration...
...interrogation methods that many would say constitute torture: "Forcing the detainee to be naked, perform sexual acts, or pose in a sexual manner; Placing hoods or sacks over the head of a detainee; using duct tape over the eyes; Applying beatings, electric shock, burns, or other forms of physical pain; "Waterboarding"; Using military working dogs; Inducing hypothermia or heat injury; Conducting mock executions; Depriving the detainee of necessary food, water, or medical care...
...trade, as so many union supporters of Obama hope? Unlikely. In fact, it's hard to think of anything business and investors on both sides of the Pacific would welcome less right now than a U.S.-China trade rumble. Both countries are in the midst of serious economic pain, which trade tensions would only worsen. There are enough comparisons with the Great Depression out there already without dredging up the memory of Smoot-Hawley, the 1930 legislation in the U.S. that put a tariff on some 20,000 imported goods - to devastating effect on trade...
...Perhaps it's true that if sufficiently angered by U.S. trade policy, China would feel compelled to inflict economic pain on itself by dumping U.S. debt, in order to send a message to Washington. But Geithner, despite his brief rhetorical flourish about manipulation, knows what his job is when it comes to persuading foreigners (whether governments or individuals) to continue to invest in Treasuries. Sources close to the Administration say that thus far he has argued privately that "what the world wants to know, first, is that we are going to fix this [economic and financial] problem and make people...
...course, that depends on international will to reduce carbon emissions - and its easy to see how fears of economic pain today could trump climate risks that many people now alive won't be around to see, especially for politicians hired and fired on election cycles. Brave leaders will have to think ahead, as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in the summit's closing speech. "It's right now, at the instant when our thoughts are centered on the economic challenge, that we must not set to one side the challenge of global warming, but instead resolve to meet...