Word: comfortability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front and center to deliver the bad news. Investors, fearing that the earnings of large U.S. companies exposed to Asia would suffer, began to sell. On Thursday the market dropped 186.88 points. On Friday, while the Hang Seng recovered, the Dow fell an additional 132.36 points, unable to take comfort in the good news. In New York City, out-of-favor issues ranged from big airlines with Pacific routes, like American and United, to consumer-product companies like Coca-Cola. Semiconductor stocks took a beating, along with high-tech giants like IBM and Hewlett-Packard, which earns...
...stage is set. Jiang, a professed fan of American culture, will have his chance to see American-style political activism up close--perhaps too close for comfort. Here and nowhere else will Jiang take questions from students interested in the issues, who are not fawning before a powerful head of state. Unfortunately, at Jiang's request, he will have seen the questions beforehand--a far cry from the unscripted question period agreed to by most political speakers at Harvard. Still, as former Chinese political prisoner and Kennedy School of Government graduate Wang Juntao told The Boston Globe last week...
Paffenroth is one of the 7 million passengers who are basking in the relative comfort, speed and convenience of regional jets--the 50-seat versions of bigger planes like the DC-9 or Boeing 737 that are changing the commuter-airline business and causing reverberations among the major airlines. Introduced in the U.S. in 1993 by Comair, a Cincinnati-based carrier and Delta partner, the twin-engine CRJ, made by Montreal's Bombardier, has become the mainstay of Comair's fleet. The CRJ and a rival regional made by Brazil's Embraer are steadily supplanting turbos. They had been stalled...
...constant dialogue with its members. Like singers from the '20s who preceded her in loungey style, she synchronized fluid and natural movements with the simplicity and steadiness of her own voice. Even while delivering what must have been vocally straining performances, she managed to maintain an ease and comfort in her demeanor that, from the beginning of her career, completely set her apart from singers less mature in their craft...
...days of the Soviet Union, Communist ideologists taught the simpleminded notion that the bourgeois capitalist world was run by small groups of monopolists who manipulated governments and the news media from the comfort of their wood-paneled offices...