Word: painlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begins with a relatively painless walk to one of Harvard's less-known cement monoliths, the Broadway Parking Garage. Painless, except for the constant fear of cars shooting up from the tunnel next to Canaday at rates up to sixty miles-per hour. Why fear these subterranean speeders? Simply put, you have no choice but to jaywalk if you decide to cross anywhere except Quincy Street. If you're as lucky as I am, you get to break the law in front of a completely ambivalent police cruiser. Ambivalent as to whether you're breaking the law, seemingly ambivalent...
Remember: the alternative to trimming our deficit (not necessarily wiping it out, but trimming it) is the gradual decline of our country. The House-Senate conferees should play the relatively painless gas-tax card for all it's worth...
...military operations go, the air attacks proved relatively painless. They were fast, accurate, and there were no allied casualties. But beyond venting anger at the U.N. killings, it was hard to see that Washington had moved much closer to cleaning up Somalia. Pentagon officials told TIME that a follow-up % attack on Aidid's stronghold in the city of Galkaio will soon follow. Until and unless the warlord is captured, Clinton will be unable to call it a mission accomplished...
...Justin put his toothbrush? Through the apple? On the teddy bear? No, he puts it in his mouth! More instructions follow, about the placement of books, bicycles, pillows and dolls. The text tries a little too hard to be nonsexist, but the photographs are pleasing and the lessons are painless...
What foreign companies do not want is to pay a huge chunk of the bill for repairing these problems. Soaking the foreigners may have sounded to Clinton and his advisers like a politically painless program, but it could cost the + U.S. a lot more in lost capital investment than it would gain in taxes. "Clinton is just going to have to rethink his policies on international taxation," says Garten. If Clinton does so, he will probably have to find the money elsewhere -- or come to realize that his spending plan is too ambitious...