Word: comfortable
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...great, in fact, is the toleration required that grotesque aberrations of thought and behavior are routinely met with a shrug and a weary smile that proclaims your comfort: "Ah, diversity," your smile says as you pass the Lesbian Coffee House in the Dunster JCR. This, combined with a few other manners assimilated from wealthy classmates passes for sophistication around here and snobbery just about everywhere else. But the smile and the shrug really have to do with ignorance: an inability to distinguish what's distinctive and important...
Although the game's outcome was a little too close for comfort, Harvard Coach Pete Roby was happy with the team's performance...
Matsuoka, 46, is back in Japan now and, like most Japanese, is busy saving to ensure that in retirement he will enjoy something like the comfort his Belgian friend had. Every month 10% of Matsuoka's after-tax paycheck is automatically deducted and put into a company savings program. But Matsuoka's wife, who, like most Japanese wives, handles the family finances, is unsatisfied. She salts away even more cash from Matsuoka's twice-yearly bonuses...
...under control," said James Mason, director of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control. "We are saying that it's not spreading like wildfire." That conclusion, the result of a CDC study released last week along with a preliminary report by President Reagan's AIDS commission, was little comfort to many Americans: AIDS has killed nearly 27,000 people in the past seven years, and is expected to infect a quarter of a million more by 1991. Nonetheless, the two reports met with cautious approval, even among critics, for the Administration's attempt to find some...
...talk, however, the meeting accomplished little. The eight countries at Acapulco -- Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela -- have no means of imposing their views on the other OAS members. Still, the likelihood of an increasing regional assertiveness at odds with U.S. policies and interests brought little comfort to Washington...