Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bachelor from Weare, N.H., keenly senses that he has been chosen by Bush and history to cast perhaps the deciding vote on whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal in all states. He gave scant comfort to either side on that issue, flatly refusing to discuss Roe even in the wake of lengthy grilling by committee chairman Joseph Biden. Though he acknowledged the right of married couples to privacy, he refused to budge further in discussing either privacy or abortion rights. When asked whether he could understand the anguish of a woman facing...
...your comfort zone and find the configuration of goals that best expresses who you are and who you want to be--whether that is winning an Olympic medal or learning to knit, completing a thesis or becoming an officer of Crimson Key. (We hope these things aren't mutually exclusive...
...showroom, Honda cars are known for quality and comfort, if not raciness. But on the track, Honda's Formula One cars have consistently blown the doors off their rivals. Now Honda is taking its racing technology to the streets with a new mid-engine sports car called the Acura NSX. The $60,000 two-seater, which arrives at West Coast dealerships this week, is the most expensive Japanese car yet. The auto has been so eagerly anticipated that more than 1,500 of the first year's U.S. shipment of 3,000 cars are already spoken...
...designed as a challenger to Porsche and Ferrari, but may actually top them in comfort and high-tech efficiency. The all-aluminum NSX, which weighs just 3,000 lbs., has a top speed of 168 m.p.h. and can accelerate from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in a brisk 5.6 sec. Reviews in the automotive press have been ecstatic. "Compared with the NSX," said Automobile magazine, "a Chevrolet Corvette felt like it was from the Iron Age. A Ferrari 328 felt ponderous, massively challenging to drive, and not terribly quick...
That offers little comfort to Israeli citizens. Residents were dismayed to learn that their air-raid shelters would prove useless, since heavier-than-air poison gas seeps into underground shelters and lingers there. Many were incredulous when an expert explained that a cloth soaked in water and baking soda could serve as a makeshift breathing mask...