Word: comfortable
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...Rosovsky's optimism again appears somewhat overblown. Rosovsky draws confidence from the statistic that close to half the Core enrollments are electives but concedes that the full impact of Core requirements will not be known until the Class of '86 graduates. Needless to say, that judgement is of little comfort to undergraduates currently struggling to combine 10 Core offerings with concentration requirements...
...gauging the thoughts and intentions of the men in the Kremlin?not that the rest of the world in this case did any better. And if the issue is hardly comparable in importance to nuclear arms negotiations, the boycott demonstrates a Soviet wish to dramatize superpower tensions that cannot comfort anyone, sports buff...
...perfect physician is one who knows all the science and technology relevant to medicine, who knows how to apply it skillfully for the benefit of one's patients, and, at the same time, is a wise compassionate counselor who earns his or her patient's trust and provides comfort in times of illness and need. Perfection may be impossible to achieve but to try always to reach it is the epitomy of the good physician...
Over the years some critics have charged that Author John Updike consistently slights his fictional females, making them interesting only insofar as they arouse or comfort men. Updike's eleventh novel does not seem designed to appease his accusers; indeed, it looks a lot like a gauntlet flung down at feminism. Readers should get ready for a particularly hot summer. Some of the squawking at beaches will be coming not from seagulls but from liberated ladies and gents who are reading The Witches of Eastwick...
Richard Halverson, 68, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, on "word merchants" in the chamber: "Help them to appreciate the power of words... to honor, to disparage; to encourage, to disappoint; to comfort, to embarrass; to edify, to offend; to strengthen, to weaken; to motivate, to immobilize; to give hope, to frustrate; to purify, to pollute; to build, to destroy...