Word: painfulness
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...plastic. One banker told TIME that a byproduct of a recession is that people charge more and don't pay it off, increasing their balances. Another is that it gives a bank that is ready for recession the opportunity to win share from the unprepared. Those might offset whatever pain the prospect of more regulation will bring...
...couple of years spent beefing up its lighting division is causing Philips no such pain. With revenues touching $9 billion in 2007, the company leads the global market--illuminating offices and airports, streets and sports arenas. And with a slew of acquisitions in advanced light-emitting diode (LED) know-how, Philips is "'light' years ahead" of the competition, says JPMorgan analyst Andreas Willi...
...These include Pete O’Felia (Mac H. Bartels ’09), a take on the Pied Piper; Oldielocks (Clifford N. Murray ’10), a combination of the old and apparently Jewish woman who lived in a shoe and Goldielocks; and Roy L. Pain (Thomas R. Compton ’09). The opening musical number features some surprisingly capable singing. Compton’s voice comes off strong even when a repeated ‘ribbet’ comprises his only sung line. Andersson and Daniel V. Kroop ’10 as the character...
...Soviet Union with cold war invective. She coldly withstood the threats of Irish Republican Army hunger strikers, even when ten of them died of starvation in 1981 at Belfast's Maze prison. She pursued an austere, rigidly monetarist economic line, and when members of her Cabinet protested about the pain it was causing many Britons, she forced out a number of these "wets," her term for the irresolute. Says former Labor Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson, 67, who retired from politics last month after 38 years in Parliament: "Mrs. Thatcher's image is that of the toughest...
...Mama and Chris Brown are the new Janet and Michael Jackson—and T-Pain, ironically enough, is the new Tito. The “Lip Gloss” chanteuse and her crazy-legged counterparts find themselves in Mama’s latest video, “Shawty Get Loose,” on a spacecraft that’s strikingly similar to the one depicted in Janet and Michael’s 1995 “Scream.” While “Scream,” the most expensive music video ever produced...