Word: painful
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...Cockburns’ most admirable accomplishment is in balancing the technical rigors of economic theory with focused, empathetic stories of struggle and pain. One such story belongs to Reverend Almalene “Emily” Wade, who took out the equity in her childhood home in order to make the renovations needed to accommodate an assisted-living center, but could not afford the monthly payments and so lost the residence. Standing in front of her former home, Wade speaks powerfully to the scope of her financial hardships. “You lose more than the home...
...what's the big take-away? We're finally at the point where we can see the light at the end of the tunnel and be reasonably sure it's not an oncoming train. But there is more pain to come. We're not finished with this cycle...
...Every doctor interviewed for this article urged patients not to avoid necessary surgery or forgo required anesthesia. To understand the consequences of going without anesthesia, Wilder points to certain surgical trends in the 1960s. Believing that babies were still too underdeveloped to feel pain, many doctors at the time advocated only light anesthesia or none at all for infants undergoing surgery. "The morbidity and indeed mortality levels were much higher [in these babies]. The stress response to the pain of the surgery proved dangerous," Wilder explains. It is also important to remember how primitive surgical painkilling mechanisms were before...
...affirmed the continued need for hate-crime legislation. A hate crime should be treated distinctly from other offenses because of the particularly heinous nature of the act and because of its far-reaching implications. Perpetrators of hate crimes do not merely harm their victims—they inflict tremendous pain on the victim’s entire community. Hate crime generates feelings of fear and dismay that impact the lives of many more people than are directly affected by the crime itself. Unlike other crimes, a violent act committed against someone because of his race or religion carries the implicit...
...when they work, Leaf causes the distress the play wants. Toward the middle of the play, Corday whips Sade under his own request. No real leather is used (Jakim sets her hair to the task), but Jampol’s grimaces and cries express such a mix of pain and pleasure that it is hard to believe that no one is getting hurt. Standing, arms and legs outstretched in the middle of the prison, she is at once physically bound and liberated in her speech. “Now I see where the revolution is leading?...