Word: comfortableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such continuing pressure on Pretoria was cold comfort to A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo as he presided over anniversary festivities in Lusaka. There were speeches, rallies and a birthday cake decorated with icing in black, green and gold, the A.N.C.'s colors. But the most remarkable event was Tambo's speech, in which he played down the bloody guerrilla tactics that the A.N.C. has advocated in recent years. Instead, he embarked on a more moderate approach, pledging that "civilians, both black and white," would not be harmed by A.N.C. fighters. He called on whites to "come together in a massive democratic...
Several members of our staff have devised criteria for judging how nervous they ought to be. Among them are Washington Correspondent Patricia Delaney and Jerry Hannifin, who both contributed to the cover. "My first rule for comfort and safety is to fly when the smallest number of people do," says Delaney. "I'd rather get up at 5 a.m. on a weekend, when the capital is most romantic in the dawn blush along the Potomac, than face the mobbed 8 a.m. weekday flights." Hannifin, a longtime pilot who has covered the aviation industry for TIME for more than three decades...
Chinese officials also implicitly criticized the Voice of America, which broadcasts English- and Chinese-language programming into China. The New China News Agency singled out one VOA report that quoted "independent-minded" U.S. Journalist I.F. Stone as saying that the Chinese demonstrations were a "comfort to dissidents elsewhere." VOA officials defended their decision to broadcast the remark on the grounds that support for the protesters from Stone, a longtime sympathizer with the Peking regime, was news. For all their cautious restraint so far, China's rulers last week seemed to be casting an increasingly disapproving eye on the actions...
...much or more to nature as to nurture. Of eleven key traits or clusters of traits analyzed in the study, researchers estimated that a high of 61% of what they call "social potency" (a tendency toward leadership or dominance) is inherited, while "social closeness" (the need for intimacy, comfort and help) was lowest...
...Harvard students hankering for an MTV fix in the comfort of their common rooms might not get a chance...