Word: painlessness
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Perhaps being told once that he was unwanted would be enough, but certainly being told twice would seal the deal. After all, why continue on in the face of such adversity and hostility when quitting would be both painless and easy...
...with me as the Pentagon burned. They were with me as the twin towers fell. They were with me as I saw footage of people jumping from the World Trade Center’s upper floors when, confronted with the agony of burning alive, they opted for the most painless death possible. Through all of this awfulness the words were there, ricocheting horrifically about my mind...
...answer to making this everywhere-but-the-GDP-numbers recession as quick and painless as possible may not lie in trying to tide the consumer over while Wall Street waits and worries for businesses to start investing again. It may be giving those businesses - and the investors that bet on them - a reason to take that leap of optimism as soon as possible...
First of all, the way to get five weeks of vacation is to have open-heart surgery. It is the perfect cover. Bipolar depression is a downer and TB makes your friends nervous and a hip replacement is terribly inconvenient, but cardiac surgery poses few risks, is mostly painless and has a grandeur about it that erases all obligations, social and professional. It is the Get Out of Work card. All you do is put a hand to your chest, and people hold the door open for you and help you into a rocker...
...Hong Kong women come despite clean, government-approved alternatives at home. Paul Yip Sui-fai of the University of Hong Kong's statistics and actuarial science department says that thousands are making the quick trip across the border for a cheap, painless procedure. Adds Angela Pau, spokeswoman for the Hong Kong Family Planning Association: "Almost one-third of women we surveyed admitted to going to the mainland for abortions...