Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unprepared as they were for life after Hussein, many Jordanians took comfort watching the new crown prince going about his first official duties. As he stood in Raghadan Palace, shaking hands with thousands of subjects--army officers and Bedouin chiefs, imams and Palestinian businessmen--Jordanians took note of the same strong yet polite way with people that was the magic of his father...
...investing, there's comfort in buying what everyone else buys. But fads fade, and it's the last people in who lose big. I'm not saying that the Internet bubble has burst. But if you paid $199 a share for Amazon.com on Jan. 8, you know what I mean. If you didn't, here's a hint: last week the stock ended at $117. Forneris surely was influenced by herd thinking. In the weeks before McGwire's famous swat there was a groundswell of local opinion that home-run balls should be returned. "Fans who kept the balls were...
...thus pleased that one fewer inmate (however deserving of the penalty he may appear to be) will be executed as a result of the Pope's intervention, this whole story leaves me a little queasy. It brings religion and politics in this country a little too close together for comfort. Here's the thing: Carnahan still supports the death penalty and has signed off on 26 execution orders since becoming governor...
...agree "the demise of self-segregation should be lauded, not lamented." But there is something to be said about seeing faces on campus that are the same color as mine. Although only one of my closest friends is Asian American, I took comfort in seeing many Asian faces every day at Harvard. Now that I am at a law school where the Asian American population is significantly smaller, I feel less comfortable, even though I have never enveloped myself in an Asian American community...
...State of the Union speech January 19th, a forum in which he traditionally shines, Clinton will spend time touring the country memorializing Martin Luther King Jr., then receiving the Pope. Lott's no fool -- the Mississipian can no doubt easily imagine the scene as the Pontiff arrives to comfort the popular President while he himself is mired in a failing prosecution. Lott wants to rewrite the script...