Word: comfortes
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...Pentagon's moves to stabilize the Cole were swift, but efforts to explain how last week's attack could have taken place offered little cause for comfort. The size of the blast, the perpetrators' ability to conceal the bomb and their advance knowledge of the arrival of the Cole--the ship's commanders notified Yemeni authorities 10 days before last Thursday that it would refuel in Aden--suggest that the attack was plotted weeks, even months, in advance. Once it pulled into Aden, the ship was highly vulnerable--to the bevy of small craft mingling around it, to the port...
...loading up on stocks. Since a bear market ended late that year, the NASDAQ has risen 10-fold and the Dow more than fourfold. Whether the next decade will prove as profitable is an interesting question but one that, frankly, can't be answered. Long-term investors can take comfort in knowing that the overwhelming odds are for stocks to be higher a decade from now. But that doesn't help much in times like these, when all you really want to know is whether the bloodletting is nearly over or just getting started...
Before I start shooting, I start to concentrate on reading verses of the Koran because the Koran gives me the courage to fight the Israelis. The Koranic verses make me less afraid of death, and when I finish my job, I feel comfort and strength...
Senator John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) did not sit with the family of Texas Gov. George W. Bush in St. Louis during last night's presidential debate. Instead, he watched from the comfort of a room at the Westin Hotel in Boston, the victim of a last-minute ruling by the Commission on Presidential Debates...
...believed it. But after the first two debates with Al Gore, George W. Bush had not only held his own; he had leapfrogged his rival in the polls. And while Gore may have put in his strongest performance in last night's third debate, Bush's advisers are taking comfort in the fact that their man did not do himself any damage. "We survived," said one Bush aide in between celebratory cocktails in the bar of the Bush hotel in St. Louis. "And tonight, I think that...