Word: comfortability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shorts wearers themselves do make some efforts to explain their lifestyles. Dave Goldberg says, "the real reason is just inertia. All summer and fall I get up and put on shorts, it's real habit-forming." Others point to the many advantages of shorts: comfort, ease of removal and, according to Tim Griffiths, the ability to flee attackers more effectively than pants wearers...
ALVINN, short for Autonomous Land Vehicle in the Neural Network, originated in 1985 as a research project by C.M.U.'s Robotics Institute for the U.S. military. Early progress aroused the U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. automakers to the fascinating possibilities of fully automated passenger vehicles. The lean-back comfort of a train meets the door-to-door convenience of a car. Automobile travelers would be able to key in their destination, flip open a magazine and leave the actual driving to ALVINN. Last October the DOT committed $160 million to an Automated Highway System research consortium, which includes...
...destination. There I met a young man who for the next five hours led me to Kobe, clearing the road of broken glass, steering me away from danger and running ahead and searching for safer routes. He was constantly concerned about me, disregarding his own safety and comfort during our often perilous journey on foot. I was dazed and shocked by the destruction around me. My guide led me through the ravaged area to where I needed to go, whereupon he thanked me for the honor of escorting me and left. To my mind this man, Masaru Katagawa, epitomizes...
Shipp's testimony also provided a dramatic link between two key areas of the prosecution's case: O.J.'s alleged history of abusing his wife and his state of mind on the night of the murder. Shipp was among those who gathered to comfort and assist O.J. on the night of June 13. He testified that Simpson had admitted something that the defense had vigorously petitioned Ito to suppress. ``He jokingly said,'' recalled the ex-cop, `` `To be honest, Shipp, I've had some dreams of killing her.' '' Having ruled the highly controversial dream remark admissible, Judge Lance...
...still there are others who found hardly any comfort, much less help, in the shopping period system, and remain ambivalent about which courses they will take this spring semester, and where they are going for the rest of their academic career...