21.   They postponed the most painful decisions, on whether to take enormous slices out of hospital and health-care budgets, until later in the summer.

22.   Those painful decisions include not only leaving a marriage, but separating from a wife and children they love.

23.   Trying to openly confront his critics, Lake talked about that painful decision last week when his confirmation hearings started.

24.   Close offers compelling reasons for that painful decision.

25.   Grimsson entered the race with plenty of political baggage, having twice switched parties and having made painful economic decisions when he was finance minister.

26.   Painful decisions have been taken to overhaul the financial sector, overruling the special interests of influential bureaucrats and well-connectedbankers.

27.   The figures have forcedhim to make the painful decision of closing down some stores.

28.   Clinton added that some of those women made the painful decision to abort the fetus in order to preserve their own health and fertility.

29.   Painful economic decisions are usually reserved for the first few months of a presidential mandate.

30.   President Eduardo Frei on Thursday said the closing of the Lota coal mine in southern Chile was a painful decision and asked the now jobless miners for calm.