Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That assessment is shared by Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and Charles Schultze. chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, who are taking little comfort from the fact that unemployment dropped to a three-year low of 6.1% in January. Last week they went so far as to urge President Carter to take some form of action. The basic, underlying rate of inflation has been stuck since mid-1975 at 6%, already an unacceptable figure. A 15-page memo circulating within the Administration warns that the base rate is about to accelerate. Can double-digit inflation be far behind...
Deserted because Harvard, with its characteristic instinct for the jugular, chooses to have its vacations at times when all self-respecting colleges don't. If you're going to the same old place for vacation, you don't even have the comfort of the same old faces. With no change of scene and no old high school friends to catch up with, vacation survival means avoiding major confrontations with your nearest and dearest and a continuous battle with ennui. Now don't get me wrong, I love my family. But it is a strain to spend seven uninterrupted days...
...long as they can make profits, American firms will remain in South Africa, making concessions to non-white political and economic rights only when the U.S. government and the stockholders begin to complain too loudly for comfort...
...take too much guessing to know that the freshmen in the dormitories were behind this great scene of serene comfort...
...aware that this story of a boy separated from his parents was largely autobiographical. Until he was nearly six, Kipling lived in India, where his father taught art and eventually became curator of a museum at Lahore. Even on a teacher's low pay the family lived in comfort and privilege. For Rudyard, there were servants to tell him exotic tales and treat him like a little prince...