Word: painlessness
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...peeling process is painless to the sheep, avoids the occasional scratches or nicks left by shears, and assures an even cut of wool. Although researchers will continue to test for possible damaging side effects, the process seems to have done no harm so far to the wool or meat quality of properly dosed sheep. The new technique provides an additional fringe benefit for the sheep. If the wool is allowed to continue growing for as long as three weeks after the drug is administered, the constricted segment of the fibers is pushed about an eighth of an inch beyond...
...outside contact is hygienically transmitted over an infinitely sophisticated kind of television, which provides everything at the press of a button-from sex to seaside holidays, from the most exquisite physical sensation to the tang and even the feel of the sea. Life has become a painless, effortless, synthetically carefree adman's paradise. Meanwhile, the dirty work-garbage collection, refuse disposal, food production-is left to a wretched race of slaves, still living in hopelessly primitive and unsanitary 20th century conditions...
...CHANGE: "The word 'creativity' has achieved a dizzying popularity. It is more than a word today, it is an incantation. It is a kind of psychic wonder drug, powerful and presumably painless, and everyone wants the prescription...
...this happy note, it behooves me to relate the story of one group as muted discouragement to those seniors perceiving in the Peace Corps a painless and sureproof escape from military combat in Vietnam...
There are serious objections to Moynihan's nonfault Government insurance scheme, however tidy it sounds. For one thing, it would be fought hard by the oil industry, which aches to repeal the present gas tax. For another, it might be so financially painless that U.S. drivers would tend to worry less about their liability for accidents. And Government insurance might become a political football as legislators vied to curb needed rate raises...