OK, they say, we can have some kind of a bank bailout that is not an IMF bailout, a bailout that is not painful.
That would be painful for some businesses, but not as painful as a crash that could result if leverage keeps getting piled on leverage.
He might have to encounter difficult decisions that will not only be painful for him financially, but personally as well.
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Given that bullying is most often a painful and distressing experience, it is not surprising that people want to avoid situations in which they must endure uncivil, harassing or aggressive behaviors from others in their workplace.
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The photographs that record the progress of their painful work (painful for her, that is) are not pretty.
But that does not release us from the painful necessity for thought about making ourselves relevant.
More and more pressure is being put on the AAA-rated countries of the North to help the South, but in exchange they want southern Europe to re-engineer their economies - a painful process that challenges not just budgets but culture.
"There is an emotional rawness here that is often painful to watch, but not a trace of sentimentality in her acting, " the Telegraph's critic continues.
Cancer patients are facing some of the most difficult decisions in their lives, often while suffering through painful treatments, not to mention the fear that their cancer will kill them.
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Threatened by these often painful revelations that invariably endanger careers, people if not entire departments will, quite logically, out of self-interest, fight back.
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If a prospective juror did not find this process painful enough, there was always the chance that he or she might actually get a jury.
Indeed, it expressly decided not to liberalise bulk mail overnight, accepting that this would be too painful for incumbents required to deliver a universal service.
It adds that university leaders must "acknowledge that it will be painful for those colleagues who may not continue to be part of the organisation in the near future".
Common reasons for stopping breastfeeding were problems with the baby rejecting the breast or not latching on properly, having painful breasts or nipples and feeling that they had 'insufficient milk'.
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Hellmut Koenigshaus, parliament's liaison to the military, wrote that the cadets "did not want to go aloft after the painful loss of their comrade and others did not want to continue on the Gorch Fock", Germany's Bild reported.
That is surely quite different: a painful emergency measure, not a brilliant wheeze for running an economy in more normal times.
Interestingly, the main reason why debt explodes is not the much ballyhooed cost of bailing out the financial system, painful as that may be.
Paul, who was found living in a children's home, looked so pained way back then, so deeply unsure of himself, that it was almost painful to watch him speak, and hard not to see him as a loner-to-be.
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If that demand does not materialise, the next lot of cutting could be the most painful yet.
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Democrats have to accept some painful spending cuts that hurt some of our constituencies and we may not like.
Milan, also looked to be if not on the wane then in the kind of "transition" that heralds a long and painful rebuilding process.
Also Mr Murdoch would say that the concessions he gave Mr Hunt - such as that the board of the partly demerged Sky News should have a majority of independent directors and that the chairman of Sky News should not be a News Corp employee - were very painful for him.
That drug has not only liver side effects, but also must be injected and can cause painful injection-site reactions.
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"The solution that we have reached is certainly not the one we wanted, but it is the least painful under the circumstances because above all it leaves the management of our economy in our own hands, " Anastasiades said Sunday.
Through this painful learning experience, she realized that the difference between expensive and cheap chocolate was not clear to consumers, and she'd have to figure out a better way to differentiate herself in the market.
Earlier this month, Mr Cameron warned more "painful decisions" would be necessary to repair the UK economy, adding that he would not waver from austerity measures.
But the most painful revelation of the debate on high pay may be this: many Britons are not convinced that they live in a functioning meritocracy.
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As it happens, the stress-test results imply that if a default were confined to Greece, it would be painful for some banks but not devastating for the integrity of the European financial system.
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It is the most painful collapse in modern New York sports, almost 10 years old, the meltdown that dare not speak its name.
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