Word: painful
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...relationships intact and prevented her from committing suicide. I applaud Marsha Linehan's methods and wish they had been used in my mother's case. It's too late for her, but I pray that future generations will benefit from Linehan's techniques and perhaps be spared the intense pain of this mystifying and debilitating disorder. Nancy Leggio, BROOKLYN...
...just market analysts who are hoping for a Nikkei rebound. Japan has a unique vulnerability to negative stock-price momentum. Cross-shareholdings, a mainstay of traditional Japanese business practice in which companies hold shares of other firms to cement friendly relationships, make stock-price losses a broadly shared pain. Not only are Japan's megabanks involved in cross-shareholding; auto and electronics manufacturers like Toyota, Nissan and Sharp are too. Companies and financial groups own about 20% of the shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange...
...personal trainer sometimes gives me an odd piece of advice during workouts: "Relax your face." For a long time, I found this advice confusing. Isn't physical exertion supposed to be expressed in grimaces? I thought of the face as a pressure-relief valve that helps emit the pain the body is experiencing. But the trainer suggested I think about it the other way around - that controlling the face can help control the mind...
...short, the emotional train does run in two directions: between your brain, which may be screaming from the pain that your trainer is causing, and your face, which can - if you draw it into a relaxed expression - inform your brain that it shouldn't be protesting so much. So next time you're working out and grimacing, push your facial muscles into submission. Look blank. You will find it's easier to get through one more...
...Return. The countdown to tax day has begun. To ease your inevitable pain, the San Francisco-based hotel chain Joie de Vivre will pay guests' occupancy taxes at any of its 30 hotels in California through April...