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Bankruptcy Pain. Though such services do enable debtors to clear up their bills, the process is very far from painless. Delinquent debtors suffer a sharp reduction in their standard of living and a shame so severe that many do not want their names used. An example is an Atlanta father of four who is struggling to pay off a debt of $23,700, most of which he charged while he had a $20,000-a-year job in the marketing division of Lockheed. Laid off in 1972, he now earns $12,000 annually in the management training division of Georgia...
...indulgent excesses that emerged in Roma and Satyricon, yet the gaudiness and affected posturing of the clowns enables him to at least satisfy this inclination without damaging the artistry of the film. An ultimately compassionate insight into the bittersweet experiences of life's buffoons, The Clowns provides a fairly painless introduction to Fellini for the moviegoer unfamiliar with his work, while supplying a refreshing contrast with the bulk of his recent films...
...relatively painless end to a season that was painful in more ways than one for the Harvard booters. The squad opened its schedule in September with high hopes, despite several nagging injuries. But plagued with the injuries throughout, the team ended the year with an eight-game losing streak through October and early November...
Many more people received the vaccine on the second and third days of the immunization program, perhaps due to reports that the vaccine was relatively painless and simple, Postel said...
That is right. Cigarette bootlegging -"buttlegging" to police-is a multimillion-dollar business. It is a phenomenon of the past decade, when hard-pressed state governments discovered that levying stiff cigarette taxes was a politically painless way of raising money. The taxes, however, are easy to evade. Buttleggers, according to one police source, now smuggle nearly half a billion cartons a year-or one-sixth of all cigarettes smoked-into 42 high-tax states. The Council Against Cigarette Bootlegging, an organization financed by the tobacco industry, estimates that 44 million cartons will be smuggled into New York State alone this...