Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although Cambridge managers say they cannot legally prohibit the homeless from staying in the streets outside their businesses, they feel that the presence of loiterers hinders the safety and comfort of their customers...
Downer's critics also fear that poor women and teenagers -- the ones most likely to have trouble getting to states where abortion is legal -- are the ones least likely to master the procedures for performing an abortion safely. It is small comfort that hospital emergency rooms would be obliged to treat any woman who developed complications. "Abortion is minor surgery," says , Barbara Radford, the head of the National Abortion Federation, an association of abortion providers. "But you need backup, you need proper equipment, you need proper medication...
Shoes cannot simply adorn; they must protect and support. As a design object, they unite form and function, utility and style. Ferragamo's shoes were as engineered as a suspension bridge and as theatrical as a butterfly. "Elegance and comfort," he once wrote, "are not incompatible." From the moment he began making shoes in 1907 until his death in 1960, his motto was that women did not have to suffer to be beautiful; shoes did not have to pinch to be chic...
...feel we have the international community with us," says Malaysia's Mutang. That is some small comfort when he is alone in a dark cell. But the real satisfaction will come when his efforts -- and those of hundreds of courageous men and women like him -- begin to turn back the forces destroying earth's irreplaceable natural resources...
Jordan S. Ellenberg '93 appreciates the comfort of the Kong after a long, hard night of socializing. "If something traumatic happens to you at a party," he says, "you just bite into a platter of Peking ravs. There can't be more than that, can there? Other food doesn't do that. Even if you're sober, it still works...