Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole person, including the person's social background and life history. The latter kind of physician, working with specialists' advice, has been shown most likely to make the correct diagnosis. The primary care physician is also more likely to provide emotional support to a patient, when often that comfort alone will improve a patient's health...
...submerged or moved navigational buoys. No one wanted to risk yet another major oil-tanker disaster. Icebreakers rammed their curved prows against ice up to 18 in. thick to keep the Hudson open as far north as Albany. Surprisingly, the faithful Staten Island ferry kept moving Manhattan workers in comfort to their jobs across the windswept harbor...
...around the nomination of Carter's fellow Georgian and longtime friend, Federal Judge Griffin Bell, to be Attorney General. The N.A.A.C.P., the Congressional Black Caucus and some liberal Democrats all assailed Bell. Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, charged that Bell had given "aid and comfort to segregationists" while an Atlanta attorney, chief of staff to Georgia's segregationist Governor Ernest Vandiver and a member of the federal bench. Black Caucus Chairman Parren Mitchell accused Bell of being "the mastermind of Georgia's massive resistance" to school desegregation when he advised Vandiver from...
Ford, though its market share fell, could take comfort from the way it came through a strike by the U.A.W. that choked off its production completely for four weeks in September and October,'at the start of the 1977-model run. The walkout cost sales of perhaps 200,000 cars-yet Ford's 1976 volume still rose by almost 14%, to 2,256,000 autos. The company's strategy has been to put an almost equal marketing push behind restyled intermediate-size cars and standard-size cars, and they sold almost equally well. The boxy Granada compact...
Blacks and Jews in Atlanta regard the club as an irritant but not cause for much outrage. Since 1867, Atlanta's Jews have had their own Standard Club, which admitted its first gentile member only last September. In fact, Atlanta's Big Mules could take some comfort from the fact that one of Standard's members, Lawyer Robert Lipshutz, plans to resign his membership as soon as Carter names him White House counsel...