Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear visions of the worst things that could happen to Ferraro. "She could have a snit." "She could cry or giggle." "I'm afraid my husband might think she seems like his mother." A travel agent said, "I worry a lot about her feet. Where does she find comfort able shoes? That's not a problem men candidates have...
While a contingent of ushers kept the assembled masses from storming the visitors' stands, it looked like a call too close for comfort--especially for some of our grey-crew-cut friends in Section 22, who advised. "That's enough patience--let's see some police brutality. C'mon, brutalize them...
...groups. On the one hand are what some analysts call "the backpack and raisin" carriers such as People and Muse, which offer low fares. On the other are such established airlines as United, Delta, American and Northwest, which offer something for everyone while concentrating on travelers who want reasonable comfort and firm reservations. Yet another development has been the expansion of commuter and feeder lines, which provide service to small markets where major carriers have cut back...
...Feinberg's attempts to portray Dallas as a police state. The city provided the protestors at "Tent City" with basic necessities--which, in my opinion, was more than enough. To suggest or imply that the city should have provided for the protestor's every need, want or comfort is ludicrous. Dallas had the responsibility to insure only that the protestors be given the opportunity to protest; the federal judge (a Democrat) was obviously correct in ruling that the city had no obligation to further subsidize the protestors. By providing basic necessities, the city of Dallas donated far more than...
Many readers are ashamed to admit that they could not or did not finish a book. These unfortunates may take comfort from the latest flight into the cosmos of science philosophy (or sci-phi) made by Polish Fabulist Stanislaw Lem. It seems that the day is coming when publishing will proliferate past the vanishing point; individual volumes will be obsolete before they reach the binders, and turning pages will be a literal waste of time. "Are we not threatened with a flood of information?" Lem asks. "Such vastly multiplied content in collision brings no credit to thought, but rather...