Word: comfortability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also knew that baseball was eternal, and would always be around to comfort me--even now, when the postseason should be going strong and baseball should be in the foreground of my consciousness, Gibson and Ray Kinsella are still in there somewhere, and that makes me happy...
...that from a man who supports the institution of juries, which are, after all, a group of ordinary citizens who sacrifice their time, comfort and sometimes income. It's not the jurors who are the problem, says Adler, but the ordeal they are subjected to. First, the most competent citizens are permitted to escape the jury pool. The pool is whittled down further by peremptory challenges, which allow lawyers to strike a potential juror from the panel without giving reasons. The lawyers have reasons, of course, often based on stereotypes of race, gender, age or income that lead them...
Apparently, though, he noticed that quick polls in the U.S. showed a decline in public opposition to invasion -- to 60% against in one ABC News poll, from 73% earlier in the week. While that was still far too high to comfort any President planning a major military action, it still constituted movement in what for Clinton was the right and for Cedras the wrong direction...
Whatever the practical benefits of the conference, few denied its symbolic importance. One delegate likened the event to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting: countries drew comfort from the plight of other countries, and together they resolved to deal with the mutual problem. As this delegate saw it, "Muslim nations said to other Muslim nations, 'It's O.K. to support family planning,' as did Catholic nations to other Catholic nations." Thus, the consensus achieved in Cairo may allow the world community to move beyond divisive debates about abortion and contraception in dealing with the population juggernaut. The accord may signal...
...think that the millions of small savers who made this sacrifice to banker comfort could at least have got a loan from a bank, but no way. They got mortgages, and that was it. There were no home-equity loans, and stores didn't take credit cards. The only sources of quick cash were pawnshops, relatives, loan sharks and the local finance company...