Word: comfortability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right. There they met up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the slash-and-burn conservatives. That the term also saw the further consolidation of a fairly reliable four-vote liberal block--John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer--is cold comfort to those four and their supporters. Unless they can attract O'Connor or Kennedy to their side more often, the left wing of the court is in danger of becoming a vestigial organ, visible but pointless...
...this is small comfort to Terri Yates. Last year, working full time, she took home about $10,000 as a cabdriver. This year she expects to do better. But even with Terri working six-day weeks and her husband Philip driving a cab all seven days, they still can't scrape together a down payment on a house. Terri's 1985 Pontiac needs radiator and clutch work; Philip is still paying $160 a month on a 14-year-old Mazda pickup. "I'm making less money than ever in my whole life, and I'm working more," Terri says...
...Fernando Valley in 1987, a man and a woman make love. Or rather, he does, plowing away at his passion. She studies the ceiling while holding him like a reluctant mother. Carol (Julianne Moore) and Greg (Xander Berkeley) live in suburban comfort, yet Carol is anything but comfortable. Ordinary fragrances and fumes make her ill. She hyperventilates in her car. She suffers from nosebleeds and vomiting. She can't ... she has trouble ... sentences are a problem for her. She has lost control of herself and her environment. "Where am I? Right now?" she asks her husband...
...also make somebody rich, very rich. The Internet reaches tens of millions of people around the world, and it's growing faster than a Las Vegas bar tab. Many of the folks who roam the networks may like to place a wager from time to time, especially from the comfort of home or an office computer. The smell of all those suckers with money to burn has attracted dozens of would-be Bugsy Siegels, all of them racing to set up Internet sites. Analysts say legalized online gambling could be a $10 billion-a-year industry...
...fact, if it hadn't been for a warm reception from the Black Students Association [BSA] during Prefrosh Weekend, Marsh says she would never even have considered enrolling. But the sense of comfort the BSA provided helped to change Marsh's mind...