Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when it comes down to paying thousand dollar tuition increases each year and bearing a greater burden of the budget, these thoughts offer little comfort. If the market drops even further, then maybe Harvard's endowment will get the sinking feeling we have each and every year when we open the mail to find the biggest term bill ever...
...players get attention," Wheaton says. "Others, like Lori, you can just throw them on the field and always depend on them. It's a real comfort for a coach to know you have someone giving 100 percent all the time...
Unlike Hart and Biden, Dukakis will stay in the race. But his five remaining Democratic presidential rivals can take little comfort from the Governor's woes. The sight of yet another candidate under fire at a press conference adds to an impression, harmful to all Democrats, that the party's race is becoming a demolition derby that will be won by the last battered survivor. Says Robert Beckel, a senior aide to Walter Mondale in 1984: "This is one hell of a way to start. We've got a stature problem: some of our best candidates have refused to enter...
...Cosbys invest heavily in comfort and aesthetics. They own houses in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, as well as a 265-acre estate near Amherst, Mass. (their primary residence); 22 fine cars, including two Rolls- Royces and a 1937 Aston Martin; an extensive collection of black American art; antique English and Shaker furniture; four cellars of vintage wines; and a seven-passenger Mitsubishi jet (a second jet, a 13-passenger Gulfstream IV, is on order...
...very model of a strong, close-knit, parent-dominated unit. The fact that the family is black, without making a particular point of it, is an encouraging sign of maturity in matters of race. For whites as well as blacks, The Cosby Show is a weekly source of comfort and wisdom. "I hear white working-class families quoting The Cosby Show as though it were the last church sermon they heard," says Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles. "It's a pastoral quality...