Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light of this administration's long-standing efforts to impede freedom of expression, it is hard to find any lasting comfort in the temporary uspenston of this order. Indeed, administration officials even now continue to pursue politically palatable versions of the order. One Administration official even suggested the President could reinstate the full order after the November election...
...dawned gray and ordinary. As Muscovites looked outside at streets dusted with fresh snow, they could at least take comfort from the fact that it was Friday. Many turned on their radios, expecting the usual mix of news, pop music and light entertainment. What they heard instead were the melancholy strains of Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. Only 15 months before, such symphonic tributes had signaled the death of Leonid Brezhnev. Now the music was playing again. A Soviet office worker said it all: "Someone has died up there...
...rise of the Soviet military Establishment over the past decade has enhanced Ustinov's power, it may ultimately keep him from becoming party leader. Ustinov does not currently have a foothold in the Secretariat. Indeed, the aging defense planner may be too closely linked to the military for the comfort of many party bureaucrats. Says Daniel Papp of the Georgia Institute of Technology: "Some people will oppose Ustinov for precisely the same reason that others will support him, because of his strong identification with the military-industrial complex of the Soviet Union...
...cannot understand the compulsion that drives some individuals to amass fortunes far beyond what they need for their comfort and security...
...Washington fans took last week's 38-9 Super Bowl loss harder than the players, who found comfort in knowing that the Los Angeles Raiders had at least killed them. "We would be much more depressed if we had lost on the last play," Safety Mark Murphy said immediately afterward. "We're embarrassed now, but we had enough time in the second half to put it all in perspective...