With a GOOG long on the breakout, any trader wishing and hoping from that point forward would be in a world of pain and frustration.

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It is hard to think about 20 six- and seven-year-olds and what happened to them on Friday and imagine that, in a few weeks or a few months, that pain would not still be incredibly intense and present.

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So as we work down our debts, the hope of the government has been that the Chinese could be persuaded to invest some of their vast surpluses in our infrastructure, in a way that would ease the pain of our economic slowdown and would yield a decent return to China over the long term.

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That pain would be worth enduring if it led to a better medium-term budget outcome.

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David Lock, counsel for the hospital, part of the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, said a doctor had said she was "living in a plastic box" and that her life would be "dominated by pain and suffering".

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That would be a terrible idea, not least because the government has the resources to ease the pain in less dangerous ways: it is running a budget surplus and has little debt.

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Given these factors and the ongoing pain of the housing bubble burst, one would think that there would be a reluctance to participate in what appears to be yet another mania.

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She sought out the good doctor around 1990, at a time when he was only accepting patients into his program that would be receptive to the notion that their pain was not due to structural abnormalities.

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