Most of the pain is falling on small firms where unions are not powerful.

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Although millions of small investors have felt the pain of falling stock markets over the long term it is still the best place to invest.

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But just as rising house prices help to boost spending, so falling house prices can cause economic pain.

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But elsewhere, falling migration means little more than pain.

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In the meantime, however, most of the pain of restructuring is falling on small and medium-sized firms, tens of thousands of which have gone bust, often because they are unable to get bank loans.

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He used a medical spray to relieve his pain but then suffered some side effects which resulted in him falling asleep in his car, exceeding the store's two-hour parking limit by 20 minutes.

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Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother's so easily wiped away.

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Finally, we have energy prices falling, rather than rising, which is helping to mute and mitigate the pain of the loss of income many are experiencing, and this is something we didn't even have a year ago.

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