Word: painfulness
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...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...
...vast majority of Murphy's male clients are indeed gay, though he has several straight actors and even a hetero sportscaster among his regular stops. Compared with his female clients, the men--in addition to being far more nervous about the pain--are extra-cautious about making sure they don't overdo it. "Five years ago, everybody wanted that frozen look," he says. "Now they tell me, 'Make me look refreshed. As few lines as possible, but I still need to have expression...
...beamed with pride as she told of her experience. She pointed to the hut behind us, where her grandmother had performed the surgery. It was there that Monika learned about marriage, motherhood, and the practices and obligations of being a Maasai woman. I cringed and asked her about the pain, which she brushed off with nonchalant stoicism. Monika answered all my questions with ease, even excitement, explaining that she had wanted to be circumcised, had completely healed within a month and was thrilled with the outcome. But I could not provide a satisfying answer to her question...
...Call it the Huber-Howell project, and we’re ready to drop some D’s on this hoe. If you want to ride on this pain train, betta buy yo ticket. For $9.95. No C.O.D.’s. Twenty dollar value...