Word: comforting
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Parents can also take comfort in the biggest surprise of all: children who attend year-round schools actually seem to like them. Melissa Hill, a fifth- grader at Socorro's O'Shea Keleher School, had her initial doubts about year-round schooling. "But now I like it a lot," she says. "When I used to wake up in the morning, I felt like I wanted to crawl back in bed. I think it encourages kids to go to school because you always know that you're going to be on break soon." Mireya Reyes, a fifth-grader at Campestre, doesn...
Such efforts will be of little comfort to the families of children like Rafael. Until thalidomide is made safe, governments will have no choice but to regulate the drug tightly and publicize its perils...
Faculty members consistently attributed their qualms about the revised calendar to their perception that it was primarily focused on the "comfort level" of students...
There are other issues, other areas where Harvard administrators insist on maintaining policies that are not in the best interests of students or the University. In each case--either out of ignorance, or arrogance, or simply for comfort's sake--Harvard refuses to change...
...years since their graduation, members of the Harvard Class of 1944 have largely met their own expectations of financial success and family comfort...