Word: painless
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...same combative position the GOP has been in for most of the last 40 years. "Gephardt is considered very partisan," she says, "and they sent a signal they want to stick with a fighting Democrat. They're digging in for war." BTW: Gephardt's day wasn't entirely painless. He came to the Capitol for the vote from a hospital where he was preparing for gall bladder surgery. He returned immediately after his victory.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...death of its citizens for policy purposes. The decision to go to war is the most obvious example, but even the less dramatic decision to build a major tunnel or bridge contains the statistical probability of deaths in the process. We live with it. Furthermore, a quick and relatively painless end strikes me as preferable to echoing decades in the typical, miserable state prison with no hope of parole -- the death-penalty opponents' favorite alternative. (Of course, most of those who actually face the choice disagree with me about this...
While I've certainly enjoyed history's painless demands, my reasons for choosing history were never pragmatic ones. I had first thought of doing a joint concentration with government but found myself constantly frustrated by the theoretical structures discussed in the government course I took. I didn't care what some Ph.D. hypothesized about 20 years after the fact; I wanted to know what had actually been going on. Or at least what people at the time thought was going...
...Some states, among them Maryland, are replacing food stamps and welfare checks with bank cards that give welfare recipients access to prearranged monthly sums. At the New York City synagogue Ohab Zedek, members can have their monthly donations electronically deducted directly from their bank accounts. "This makes giving more painless," says Sol Zalcgendler, the congregation's executive director...
Worcester is the lovingest place on earth. In honor of Valentine's Day, FM decided to give you a guide for that wicked awesome Valentine's Day Date in God's Country. The date will start on the bus ride, which is short, cheap, and generally painless: a mere forty-five minutes from Boston's South Station, and even the stingiest suitors will admit that the $7 price tag is wicked cheap...