Word: painless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the Paraiso attack, in which the guerrillas lost only ten of their men, was both a setback to President Jose Napoleon Duarte's Christian Democratic government and a reminder to the U.S. that shoring up democracies in Central America is neither cheap nor painless. Drawing further attention to the price of the U.S. involvement in the Salvadoran war, the CIA announced last week that one of its employees had been killed in a helicopter crash in the eastern part of the country. Though the CIA did not identify him, the dead man was believed to be Richard Krobock...
...repressed the urge to merge. Despite tax reform and rising stock prices, it is still cheaper to buy factories and offices than build them and easier to acquire new products than develop them. Modest interest rates, which are near ten-year lows, continue to make borrowing for takeovers relatively painless. Moreover, many dealmakers may be anxious to take advantage of the last two years of the Reagan Administration, which has been especially tolerant of huge mergers...
...distinctions that Catholic theology tries to make between mercy killing and being allowed to die "naturally" may evaporate in the public arena. "After all," says Balch, "if someone is going to starve to death two or three weeks after the tube is removed, why not just give him a painless injection...
...remains to be seen, however, whether the new programs will have much appeal for a crime-wary public and law-enforcement establishment. That prison time can be harrowing is to some minds its first merit. The living-room sofa is by comparison a painless instrument of remorse. "Until the alternatives are seen by the public as tough, there won't be support for them," says Thomas Reppetto of the Citizens Crime Commission in New York City. The problem is even plainer when the offenders are well heeled. Will justice be served if crooked stock traders are confined to their penthouses...
...first clue is often the catastrophe itself: a fatal heart attack. But the events that set the stage for disaster, like those preceding an earthquake, have been occurring for years beneath the surface, painless and unnoticed. The culprit is silent ischemia, an intermittent interruption of blood flow to the heart, which kills tens of thousands of seemingly healthy Americans each year. Doctors estimate that the condition, undetected, exists in an additional 3 million to 4 million people known to have heart disease and further increases the likelihood they will suffer a heart attack...