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Word: painful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medications like imipramine and desipramine, but there are no quick fixes. In the end, all crack addicts, rich or poor, must put themselves back on their own feet -- a slow process that calls for professional counseling, steady support from family and friends, fearless self-examination and not a little pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Plague Without Boundaries | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...thus suggest another system. First of all, we all seem to agree that any undergraduate with ID could reasonably be let into any dorm. Second of all, the reason that students let people in without checking ID is because it is a pain in the butt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Security | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...Americans' March visit -- the Soviets had satisfied the criteria established for readmission in 1983, which called simply for "amelioration" of past abuses. In the year since the last W.P.A. meeting, for instance, the Soviets have released more than a hundred "patients." In July they purportedly banned the use of pain-inducing sulfazine, the most notorious of the contested drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Here Come the Russian Shrinks! | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...politically popular spending programs. Budget director Richard Darman came up with a solution that was simple -- too simple. A cut in the capital-gains tax would at least temporarily raise money to cover the revenue shortfall. Many Democrats at first supported the plan that looked like all gain, no pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leave It to Cleaver | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Comets jumped out to an early lead, but we did load the bases up with two outs. The guy who replaced me behind the plate was up. I was on deck, trying to adjust the grip of my bat so that it would lessen the pain in my thumb. He struck out, and before I could turn around and get my glove for the top of the inning, Coach ran up to me and said something like this...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Little League Moments and Fears | 10/24/1989 | See Source »

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