21.   Meanwhile, Adams learned a painful geographical lesson.

22.   Maybe all that came out of it was a painful lesson finally hammered home with an exclamation point.

23.   Maybe this is just a painful lesson the kids had to learn.

24.   More often, the first go-round is about painful lessons and invaluable experience.

25.   Most publishers from major houses say they have learned some rather painful lessons from the bounty of books published about Simpson and his notorious murder trial.

26.   One painful lesson after another.

27.   People by their confidence make markets, and people learn painful lessons.

28.   Quirk calls the Weintraub debacle a painful lesson in investing in the movie business.

29.   Pontiac learned some painful lessons with its last effort to woo young people.

30.   Remembering our painful lessons while growing up in the segregated South, we are glad she has exposure to different cultures.