Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neither safety nor response time is compromised, the only remaining reason for refusing the services of Safety Walk seems one of comfort. Since the inception of Safety Walk, the driving escort has logged significantly fewer requests for rides, but the slack has not been entirely taken up by Safety Walk. Perhaps some of the people no longer calling were those who used the driving escort as a free taxi service--some callers have responded to the driving escort dispatches with the following rejoinders: "I'm not wearing the right shoes," "I'm not wearing a coat...
Koresh dropped out of school in the ninth grade. Raised in the mainstream Seventh-day Adventist Church, he found comfort as a young man in the teachings of an obscure offshoot, the Branch Davidians, which was a mutation of an earlier Adventist splinter group. The Davidians trace their roots to Victor Houteff, a Bulgarian immigrant who was expelled from a Los Angeles Adventist church in 1929. Houteff had become obsessed with passages in the Book of Ezekiel in which an angel of God divides the faithful from the sinful before Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians. Believing that passage...
...Children of Men portrays a world in which all the men have become infertile. Without the prospect of posterity, the human race collapses into a ruthless, apathetic society, craving only comfort and security. Deranged would-be mothers pamper kittens in prams, Christianity has generated into a backward folk, religion of animal sacrifices, and bloodthirsty Omegas, members of the last generation born on earth, terrorize the countryside, slaughtering innocent passers-by in orgiastic rituals...
...derail Russian democracy. The next day 20,000 procommunist and ultranationalist demonstrators rallied next to the Kremlin to demand Yeltsin's resignation. A penchant for disappearing during major power struggles again raised public doubts about Yeltsin's health and political acumen. But the beleaguered President could take comfort in the week's only bright spot: an announcement that he and U.S. President Bill Clinton will hold their first summit on April 4. The meeting should provide some much needed luster to the besieged President's image...
Alynda D. Wheat '96 also said she saw "more of a comfort issue than a Black issue." But other Black students said they chose to live in the Quad because they wanted to live with other Black students...