Word: comfortability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every day. Bill's grandmother thought that reading to him would help him develop a strong vocabulary and the language skills he would need later on in school. My mother and father placed a similar premium on reading, and to this day I remember the feelings of security and comfort that I felt sitting in my grandfather's lap when he read stories to my brothers...
...have in bank accounts. The plaintiffs can attach up to 25% of his nonretirement income too, though he earns virtually nothing now, since most of his traditional sources have dried up. Even if the Goldmans and Browns succeed in gathering these modest amounts, it may seem cold comfort from a man they are convinced killed their children...
...came crashing down around her. She turned down all television offers. "I didn't owe anyone an explanation of who I am." She's barreled through these past few months in some ways feminists should applaud, missing only a few days at her law firm, Cummings & Lockwood, and finding comfort in working late with her partners (some of whom are her best friends). The crease between her eyebrows that gives her a fierce demeanor disappears when she talks about the weekend in Paris she begins the next day with the two sisters, a brother and a niece she adores, thanks...
...stress of exams combined with heroic feats of sleep deprivation drives some people over the edge. Recent suicides at Harvard, admittedly extreme, highlight the fact that the University has a problem on its hands. Students feel excessive pressure, and all too often no voice of reason is there to comfort them. In this light, the University's decision to open Cabot Library 24 hours a day during reading period and exams is downright irresponsible. Though normally I am happy to see administrators respond to students' desires, I had hoped that they would not accede to this demand...
...newer American nightmares: an allegedly grown child who turns up on the parental doorstep asking for his old room back. Not to mention all the other emotional comfort zones of the past. Usually this occurs when either a career has stalled or a marriage has crashed and burned. But there's no either/or for John Henderson, played by the depressives' national treasure, Albert Brooks, who also directed Mother and co-wrote it with Monica Johnson. Blocked as a writer and devastated by divorce, Henderson goes home in part because he doesn't have a psychological leg left to stand...