Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with Gorbachev to support publicly a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the U.S. to use force to drive Iraq from Kuwait if the economic sanctions fail. But the Soviet President, while supporting Bush in principle in private, wanted to be sure the Arab nations were on board. "Everybody takes comfort from everybody else," explained a White House aide. Bush laid on an extra stop in Geneva at the end of his trip to talk to Syria's President Hafez Assad, in part to try to ease Gorbachev's doubts...
However, Quezada said the prospect of earning more than $8 an hour serving pie is an adequate comfort...
Although Harvard sports fans were mourning the Crimson's 34-19 defeat in football Saturday afternoon, they could at least take comfort in their school's decisive victory over the Elis in the annual Harvard-Yale chess match...
...many companies to forbid fertile female employees from taking jobs that might expose them to substances that could harm an unborn child. Fetal-rights advocates say such policies are needed to protect the unborn. Critics say they are an intrusion into the lives of women and a false comfort for a society that fails to offer adequate prenatal care for all women or workplace safety for all workers...
That was not much comfort to Shirley Jean Mackey, who worked at one of the company's plants in Atlanta. A mother of one who had no immediate plans to get pregnant, she was forced to move from a job she liked, bundling lead plates, to another she hated, punching holes in hundreds of battery containers. "Each hole I punched, it was somebody's head," says Mackey. "That's just the way I felt." Along with the United Auto Workers, which represents many of Johnson Controls' employees, she is one of eight workers bringing suit against the company. They charge...