Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sprouting life-care communities is Mount San Antonio Gardens in Pomona, Calif., a successful independent operation. Retirees, who must be healthy when they move in, pay entry fees that range from $28,300 for accommodations in a studio apartment to as much as $100,000 for the extra comfort of living in a two-bedroom house. Each of the 458 retirees pays a monthly service fee of $892. In return, members receive everything from meals and utilities to housecleaning and the use of a swimming pool and a weight room. But the real benefit is unlimited access...
...estimated 100 million rentals of X-rated tapes each year. "The VCR put porno where it belongs: in people's bedrooms," says an executive vice president for one porn house, Essex Productions of Chatsworth, Calif. "I never felt it belonged in theaters. People feel that in the comfort of their own homes, they are allowed to be a little wicked...
Outwardly, Deaver maintained his equanimity in the wake of the long expected indictment. In a prepared statement Deaver asserted, "I am confident that I have not committed any perjury." He took comfort in the fact that he was not accused of more substantive conflict-of-interest charges, a development that led Deaver and observers in the Washington legal fraternity to suspect that Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. does not have a particularly strong case against...
...brightening the Large Magellanic Cloud; the sun is thought to have only about a tenth of the mass necessary to become a Type II supernova and has no stellar companion to contribute the mass necessary to turn it into a Type I blast. But that will be of little comfort to whatever creatures exist on earth when the sun is in its death throes; the $ final solar convulsions, while feeble compared to those of a supernova, will wipe out all life on the planet...
...team's comfort is another's anxiety. A six-goal deficit isn't something you like to sleep on. But after tonight's game, Bowling Green and Coach York will at least get satisfaction in the knowledge that it's over. Really...