Word: painless
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...toothpaste this morning was brown and about two inches long. Sound familiar? If you have any information that may be applicable to the case--or if you yourself wish to finally come clean--please contact me. I promise to ensure that your death is carried out in a painless and humane fashion...
However, Pepper's relatively painless practice on Thursday bodes well for the remainder of the season. Pepper is probable for today's contest and will aim to be an active part of the Crimson contingent in the rest of the tournament games...
...greenback must continue to fall, say many economists and now the Administration, if the U.S. is to curb its ruinous trade deficit. But no one can argue that such a strategy offers a simple and painless cure for America's economic ills. On the contrary, the perils are enormous and the effectiveness is uncertain. The immediate challenge for the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury is to control the dollar's descent -- no easy feat -- and prevent a free fall, which would scare off foreign investors, drive up U.S. interest rates and perhaps cause another panic on Wall Street...
Bringing down America's twin deficits will demand a wealth of ideas and compromises. No single fix will do the job. Nor are any of the remedies likely to be painless. But the Administration and Congress still have time to tailor a compromise on reducing the budget gap before the Nov. 20 deadline, when $23 billion in arbitrary cuts takes hold under the Gramm-Rudman law. Some reasonable proposals for boosting revenue, cutting spending and reducing the trade deficit...
When India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi sent extra troops to Sri Lanka early this month to help end fighting by the island's Tamil separatists, the assumption was that the operation would be relatively quick and painless. After all, India's soldiers outnumbered the roughly 2,000 members of the ragtag Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam more than 3 to 1, and had the backing of Sri Lankan President Junius R. Jayewardene. But the offensive dragged on, offering little hope that the guerrillas will give up their four-year battle for an independent Tamil homeland...