Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From the comfort of their dorm rooms, Harvard students in four houses will soon be able to use their personal computers to obtain the latest news bulletins, gain access to various databases and talk to friends across the country via electronic mail...
...Making things easy" for the men she's worked with, placing their comfort "ahead of my own," is what Wilson calls "good manners." It has also been an obviously successful tactic...
...enough, aren't healthy enough and aren't brave enough to learn to survive in a capitalist world. One day, perhaps in 20 years, the transition to capitalism will have made the Soviet UnUnion a healthier and wealthier place than it ever was under Communism. But that is cold comfort for the voiceless people...
Every number, of course, is only what we make of it, and one man's anguished 10-1 is another's rosy 2+3+4. In fact, 4 was the divine tetraktys for Pythagoras, and we comfort ourselves still with 4 seasons, 4 directions and 4 elements. Yet in China there are 5 of each -- not least, perhaps, because the character for 4 is a homonym of the character for death (and even now, in many Far Eastern hotels, a fourth floor is as rare as a 13th...
...They hardly seem in need of comeuppance, but they get it. In Doc Hollywood, an ambitious young man (Michael J. Fox) with plans to become a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon gets stuck in a small Southern town and soon learns how shallow are his dreams of wealth, prestige and comfort. In The Doctor, a heart surgeon (William Hurt) contracts throat cancer and finds he must endure the impersonal hospital "care" he has administered so blithely...