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...most recently unveiled cuts of $135 million in federal educational aid for elementary and secondary programs, a spokesman for the Department of Education said the damage would be "minimal in relation to the overall effects that budget reductions will have on the economy." Saying the cuts "won't be painless, but won't be as painful as some people make them out to be," the spokesman reaffirmed the Reagan Administration's rationalization of its attack on education: We aren't abandoning education. The federal government had done its bit and must now pass on the responsibility to individual states. Education...
...Government willing to bear the responsibility for long-term economic recovery. Volcker realizes that stopgap increases in the money supply offer no solution. It took the U.S. 40 years to reach this dire economic situation. We cannot expect instant and painless recovery...
Experiments with pound animals are "clearly ethical" because they are painless and will ultimately benefit humans. Vatner said, adding that any animal killed in a laboratory would eventually be put to death by the MSPCA...
...experiments are entirely painless," Dr. Clifford A. Barger, Pfeiffer Professor of Physiology, said yesterday. In response to the MSPCA's charge of cruelty, Barger said that "as usual, their propaganda is wrong," adding that "they stretch the exaggerations, so put it mildly...
...dreams or hallucinations induced, perhaps, by drugs, lack of oxygen or brain seizures? Could they have been triggered by beta-endorphin, the body's naturally occurring opiate, which, Biologist-Author Lewis Thomas has suggested, may be released at the moment of death to "ensure that dying is a painless and conceivably pleasant experience...