Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Getty announced that they would freeze prices at the pump for a week or more, depending on conditions in the world markets. So for the moment, at least, the runaway price hikes that followed the invasion of Kuwait have been stopped in their tracks. But that was cold comfort to motorists, who were paying 17% more for their gasoline than just a week...
...that the A.B.A. often takes positions on controversial constitutional questions, including flag burning, the right to die and gay rights. "It is an absolute sham to think that neutrality can ever be attained again," said Estelle Rogers, who spearheaded the movement to save the pro-choice resolution. "This gives comfort to people who want to criminalize abortion." The only thing the two sides seemed to agree upon is that the schism will result in continued -- and acrimonious -- debate...
...very end of the book is a profound disappointment; Turow creates a most unlikely event that provides the most optimistic future outcome for all parties. The abrupt, trite ending seems to suggest that Turow got tired of writing and yearned for the comfort of his plush law office, and simply wanted to tack on a quick ending...
...gambler Howie Spira. The money was almost certainly payment for Spira to delve for dirt on Dave Winfield (now with the California Angels), whom the Boss publicly plotted against from the moment he signed the star rightfielder to a 10-year contract in 1980. If this sounds confusing, take comfort that the commissioner saw in Steinbrenner "a pattern of behavior that borders on the bizarre." But the Yankee owner's payoff to a gambler, with its echoes of Pete Rose's bookie season, gave Vincent the disciplinary leverage he needed...
...long ocean journey, the Army maintains that it is safer than lengthy transport by trucks or trains. An Army study shows that a shipboard accident would spread a lethal nerve-gas cloud no farther than 52 miles, but that may be little comfort to the 1,200 residents of Johnston Island, which is only two miles long. The Army concedes that terrorists could try to sabotage the cargo, but it minimizes the threat. As a precaution, however, it will not disclose just when the two ships carrying the chemicals will set sail or give any hint of the course they...