Word: comfortably
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When contemplating the value of public service from within the comfort of Harvard Yard, it is easy to imagine that the differences between those providing services and those receiving them can have minimal impact on the quality of service provided. In fact, many would argue, these differences can help people who have fundamental differences learn to relate to each other more effectively...
...built for comfort; I ain't built for speed. But I got everything a good man need. WILLIE DIXON...
...intercepts get $2 to $7 just to fill out a questionnaire, or they get a product to take home and try out. For those who put in more time, say, in a focus group, as much as $150 can be earned. And all this is done in the cozy comfort of thoroughly researched decor. Pinks and blues, says Teresa, are "calming colors...
Defiant talk in Washington, however, was little comfort to Republicans who saw how well the issue was playing on the campaign circuit. Democratic attacks caught them unawares in special elections in California and New Mexico. John Linder, who chairs the House Republican campaign committee, warned G.O.P. candidates that while strangling the tobacco bill wasn't hurting Republicans, giving aid and comfort to the managed-care companies would. So G.O.P. candidates have been taking cover where they can find it. In the House, Norwood counted 90 Republicans among the 232 sponsors of his reform legislation; in the Senate, no less...
...outdoor guy like Ernest. Tried to be a father, at their first meeting in 10 years, when he took the 16-year-old Lorian marlin fishing off Bimini, lost his nerve and lost a great fish. She didn't know him, she writes, and wasn't able to comfort him, or help him laugh it off, or pretend that the failure was O.K. She certainly did not understand what became apparent later, that Greg's real passion, his father's ghost mocking him cruelly, was to dress in women's clothes. And in middle age, sober, married, a mother...