Word: comfortableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone is enamored of the style: Architecture Professor Frank Dimster, at the University of Southern California, calls the Santa Fe look "cinema architecture," an ultimately escapist style designed to comfort rather than challenge. Even some of its champions view its proliferation with alarm. "It's become too much a style," says Kellen, who has begun to shy away from using the Southwestern aesthetic. "A lot of people who don't understand it that well are making a cartoon...
Efforts to pass similar legislation in California, Connecticut and other states have met unblinking resistance from business interests. Companies that have provided workers with VDT basics like more comfortable chairs and detachable keyboards and have introduced voluntary safety standards resent government intrusion. Memphis-based Federal Express started dealing with issues of computer-screen safety and comfort as far back as 1983. The company has since installed state-of-the-art workstations and provided 100% coverage of vision care...
...city awash in scandal, Republicans take comfort in the fact that the sleaze issue has gone bipartisan now that the dealings of House Speaker Jim Wright are under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. By the end of the month, Attorney General Edwin Meese is likely to be skewered in a report from Independent Counsel James McKay declaring that the nation's top law- enforcement officer may have violated Government regulations regarding favoritism and the appearance of impropriety. The G.O.P. response will be to rebut Meese with Wright. Vice President George Bush gave a preview last month: "You talk about...
After trying to comfort the woman on the phone, Smith began calling elsewhere to get help, then went to visit the charred wreckage of the house. Somebody had thrown a whiskey bottle full of gasoline into the living room. Another bottle landed in the tiny bedroom where the nine-year-old girl and six-year-old boy lay sleeping with others. One of them was splashed from head to foot. "Her panties were burned into her flesh," said their aunt, Nomsameli Molefe, her own burned arm in a bandage. "The other child caught it mostly in the face...
Sharansky's spiritual resources were even more remarkable. For comfort and guidance he memorized the Psalms in Hebrew and chanted them often. He composed a prayer that he repeated to himself before confronting every new ordeal. It ended, "Grant me the strength, the power, the intelligence, the good fortune, and the patience to leave this jail and to reach the land of Israel in an honest and worthy way." His wife Avital, who indefatigably campaigned around the globe for his release, symbolized for him the one "fixed point" he could absolutely rely upon. Like another mathematician before him, Archimedes...