Word: comfortably
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...comfort those burned by China shares, but our survey showed that markets in seven out of the eight countries posted gains during the year after the Olympics. (The big loser was Germany, where stocks fell 26%, while South Korea gained less than 1%). "Hopefully at some point this year, there will be an upswing in the [China] markets," said Paul Cavey, a China analyst with Macquarie Research. "What's needed is only a turn in sentiment." But that's dependent upon factors such as an easing of China's inflation rate, not on China's success in track and field...
...Catholic Students Association (CSA) board member. “The Church in America has suffered a great deal lately, largely because of its shortcomings in keeping true to God’s will, and a lot of us have high hopes that the Pope can bring a sense of comfort back again.” The Pope began addressing the thousands of sex abuse scandals to reporters even before he landed in the U.S., citing measures such as special training to prevent a similar tragedy from occurring again. The Pope is not only reaching out to Catholics, but also...
...chance, positing Obama as a direct descendant of - yes - Karl Marx, who famously proclaimed religion to be the "opiate" of the masses. As the Marx meme fluttered across Fox News, you could almost hear the vast sigh of relief: Obama's gaffe had put Republican propagandists back in their comfort zone. Rather than fight a defensive election over the Bush debacles - the misplayed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the mortgage-market collapse and recession, the looming environmental crises - they could go on the offensive with their favorite wedge issues: God and guns. Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for John McCain, said...
...Even the two dissenters, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter, weren't much comfort to the inmates. Their opinion would have sent the case back to the Kentucky courts to decide whether the execution team should use some test - like checking the condemned prisoner's reflexes by brushing his eyelashes - to determine whether he's unconscious before administering the second drug...
...healing, look on us, people of many different faiths and traditions, who gather together at this site, the scene of incredible violence and pain." He asks that God give "eternal light and peace" to all who died there, in the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa. The prayer ends: "Comfort and console us, strengthen us in hope, and give us the wisdom and courage to work tirelessly for a world where true peace and love reign among nations and in the hearts...