Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem that needs examination, then, is the deficiency of service-frequency, comfort, convenience, speed, safety, reliability and cost. Among the possibilities listed in the report: improvement of existing railroad rights-of-way that would provide line-haul running speeds of 100-150 m.p.h.; new railroad rights-of-way or "tubes" to provide speeds of perhaps 200 m.p.h.; electronically controlled auto or bus highway systems; "ground and surface effects machines'"-that is, vehicles that ride on a cushion of air over land or water; improvement of helicopter services and development of VTOL aircraft (vertical take-off-and-landing craft...
...city's mute newspapers, 17,000 men, of a total work force of 20,000, were idle-and each week more than $3,000,000 in wages went down the drain. The papers themselves lost millions in ad and circulation revenues, took what comfort they could from strike-enforced economies. Merely by not publishing, for example, the nine dailies saved $300,000 a day in newsprint alone...
...Beginning of Comfort. But in the 18th century, the family began to push back the intruders and seek privacy. The interior arrangement of the houses changed; rooms began to open on corridors, so that someone going from one end of the house to the other did not have to traipse through every room in between...
Mills's views, which threatened to delay tax reduction until the long congressional battle over tax reform is fought out, gave the Administration a jolt. White House staffers pored over the text of the Mills interview with intensity, found some comfort in a passage indicating that Mills would go along with a tax bill containing "some reforms" that only partially balanced the rate reductions. At his press conference, the President said that Mills and the Administration might not be "so far apart." He intended, he said, to "go ahead with our program." That afternoon, at the President...
...Manhattan outlets. The same held true for New York newspaper news services; their familiar bylines continued to appear out of town. Editions of New York pa pers published beyond New York, such as the Times's West Coast edition, came out as usual. But all this was small comfort to the home-bound New Yorker, who limped along as best he could on substitutes. To see how he was faring, Columbia University's School of Journalism conducted a street survey, discov ered he missed the weather forecast, TV listings, movie and theater listings, the stock tables, schedules...