But, you know, to everybody's point about - Mike, I appreciate your point about the levity and the dead giveaway, but why is the misery of poor, disenfranchised, often people of color, why is that fodder for Auto-tune?
You know, why is the misery of poor people, you know, entertainment fodder?
This is about misery as defined by heartbreak teams good enough to win a lot of games and advance through the post-season, only to disappoint fans in the end by falling short of a championship.
It is the cost in lives and general misery that is unacceptable.
Our look at misery is more localized, and includes unemployment, as well as other things that aggravate people.
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And lingering behind the urgency and misery is a nagging question - which the Kenyan government is particularly keen to raise.
Mr Rumsfeld's is called Mount Misery: Frederick Douglass, a renowned American abolitionist and statesman, was enslaved there in the early 19th century.
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Harrisburg's misery is familiar to many U.S. cities trying to climb out of debt used to finance convention centers, hotels and employee pensions.
Atlanta's postseason misery is legendary, led by the Braves' failure to take home a world championship in 13 of 14 playoff appearances from 1991 to 2004.
Although the intention of bailouts and relief programs is to relieve misery, Harding recognized that such policies undermine incentives to make adjustments rapidly and can end up prolonging misery.
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So, given the idea that the economy is improving, traders are able to avert their attention from the misery that is the European debt mess and get into the holiday spirit.
Life is too short to have misery in the workplace, and the price is too great for the business and for the people involved.
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Brecht could hardly have imagined such a document: a capitalist enterprise that feeds on the misery of man trying as hard as it can to be sure that nothing is done to decrease that misery.
Its continue dormancy, the inability to put it out of its misery, is even worse.
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Humanity, in all its splendor and misery, is on jaw-dropping display.
This is the drab, barely expressed misery that one finds in a lot of contemporary poetry Ms Olds is quite as influential in her way as Mr Muldoon or Mr Ashbery.
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And for all that the scene is preoccupied with alienation and misery, its champions claim it offers a comradeship of sorts.
The charge that Bain left misery in its wake is all the more awkward because Mr Romney had a privileged upbringing.
But the elderly are spared much of the misery and loneliness that is the fate of those living alone in the anonymity of large cities.
The minister outlined his commitment to combating human trafficking as it is "the cause of much misery and suffering for some of the most vulnerable members in society".
He condemned the companies' sales practices in the strongest possible terms and called on the industry regulator, Ofgem, to "stiffen their resolve and use their statutory powers to put an end to the misery that this company is causing to people in Scotland".
The evidence of past recessions is that economic growth doesn't resume at any great velocity until unviable and inefficient businesses are put of their misery and excess capacity in various industries is eliminated.
"Europe is going to continue to wallow in misery for the foreseeable future, " Mr. Steinmetz said.
He is just as likely to douse his misery with meatballs as with scotch.
What if the road out of misery, to prosperity, is axiomatically simple and all else is simply obfuscation?
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