Word: painfulness
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...experience will be familiar to many Chinese, for whom the annual summer floods bring similar misery. But this year, the pain is being felt more widely than it has in a decade. More than 200 million people have been affected, including 5 million who have been evacuated from their homes, according to the Red Cross Society of China. More than 700 people have died. "It's already quite serious," says Victor Kan, relief coordinator for World Vision China. "We're still waiting to see what will develop...
Another fan, in between high-fiving his bros and rocking his crooked Boston College Eagles hat, shouted at the children to stop and gave them the thumbs down. Yet another young man slapped his face with both hands—over and over—in obvious pain and frustration. The Hungarian Horntails got a long ovation, seemingly as much in relief as in appreciation...
...such rampant drug abuse that her group, Lee County Coalition for Health, met with Purdue Pharma and asked the company to recall and reformat the drug. She said the company particularly targeted southwestern Virginia because of its high Medicaid and disability rates. A lot of coal miners suffered from pain, for example, and they were among the prime targets of Purdue's risky marketing. "This has changed the face of Appalachia," Davies said. "The foster care rate, the crime rate, we never had any of this until OxyContin came...
...Said claims to feel the pain of Indonesia's filmmakers every time she and her team of 45 have to cut a scene, but maintains that "certain elements of society" need to be protected. She cites Kiss Me Quick, a teen romance, and Pocong, a film dealing with the violence during the overthrow of former dictator Suharto, as examples of where the censors have to draw the line. "We're getting more aggressive in what we will allow, but those who attack us are getting more aggressive as well...
...free rein. Neither option works very well. In the U.S. as well as in Europe and other developed economies, every job moved offshore leaves a tiny hole in the fabric of middle-class life. There are gains to the world economy, but those are not so immediate as the pain of a lost job. For those who have been laid off or are worried they will be, it is tempting to fight to stop-or at least delay-the changes that produce such suffering. Already, calls for protectionism are growing louder. In 2006, U.S. senators threatened to slap...