If Romney does push through some version of the Ryan plan, then Republicans will own all the unpleasant changes, and will suffer at the ballot box, possibly for a very long time.

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It requires making sacrifices, wrestling with tough choices and telling Americans the hard and unpleasant truth -- all the things that politicians hate to do.

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Which I think is an overall positive for airlines and consequently the passengers, even though all these extra fees add to the unpleasant experience of flying these days.

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And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away.

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It's easy to favorably compare "what might have been" but the reality is that all wars are filled with unpleasant surprises.

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Colleen Doyle, registered dietitian and editor of the cookbook, says the book is full of recipes and eating strategies that patients with all types of cancer can adopt to help deal with the unpleasant side effects of treatment.

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The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is kidnapped by small green aliens called Tralfamadorians, who teach him the true nature of time: that all moments in the past, present and future exist always, and that death is just an unpleasant moment, neither an end nor a beginning.

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Simple, and safe: for the problem with all tranquillisers up till then, from henbane and absinthe to barbiturates, was that they gave unpleasant side effects at moderate doses and, at larger ones, killed you.

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