Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promising blood-filtration device that clears the body of arthritis-promoting substances the same way kidney dialysis cleans the blood of toxins. Within a few months the FDA will also consider a new class of anti-inflammatories called COX-2 inhibitors (a.k.a. "super aspirin") that will attack arthritis pain. Says Steven Abramson, an FDA adviser and chief of rheumatology at New York University's Hospital for Joint Diseases: "This is the most exciting time I've witnessed...
...already clear that Republicans will not accept any punishment that does not inflict some pain and suffering: Clinton would have to apologize once more, probably in the Well of the House or somewhere on Congress's turf; admit that he lied under oath, caused the nation, the government and the polity great damage; pledge to fix it with specific bipartisan proposals...
...statute of limitations." But Hyde shrugged off accountability. I'm an expert on age 41, when his five-year affair began, and it's hardly young. Maturity should have kicked in by that time. Yes, it was a long time ago and Hyde's marriage survived, but the pain he caused in the Snodgrass marriage and to the three children was lasting, with wounds deep and fresh enough that the husband and a daughter agonized over it publicly. It wasn't Adultery Lite to them, and Hyde would have reinforced family values by affirming that it was a terrible thing...
...Alabama schoolteacher's forgiveness of Wallace. Was she merely gullible, I've wondered, or was something deeper at work? The truth of forgiveness is that its benefits--a healing sweetness--may accrue more to the forgiver than to the forgiven. If blacks could bring themselves to forgive George Wallace, pain-racked in his wheelchair, then was there not, in the forgiveness, a small but real moment of liberation all around...
...most victims arthritis simply means pain and stiffness in the joints--sometimes moderate, sometimes severe, usually responsive to treatment with one of a number of drugs. Pain can be just the beginning, though, for the more than 2 million Americans who suffer from the variant of the disease known as rheumatoid arthritis. This unfortunate minority may experience not just discomfort but also joint deformities, fatigue, nodules of tissue under the skin and inside internal organs and, in rare cases, inflammation of the membranes surrounding the heart and lungs...