Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Purr, Baby, Purr originally sold for $5.95. In its review, the New York Times said, "Some women who feel threatened by the Libs' more outre manifestations may take comfort from the book, if they can stomach its breezy prose...
Anthony Williams steps from the chilly comfort of his campaign sedan into a humid Washington night. He has come to a rundown D.C. recreation center in what used to be Marion Barry country for a mayoral-candidate forum. Barry won't be here; after his genuinely baroque political career, the man who immortalized the words "Bitch set me up" has finally stepped aside. In his place stands Williams, who--if polls are right--will win the Sept. 15 Democratic primary (more important than the general election in this one-party town) and become mayor...
...hake and cod in September. "You had to go awfully slow, because if someone was in the water, you didn't want to run them over." His image of an abattoir was apt. "There was not one bit of hope. Someone's belly here. Intestines over there." Despite the comfort of cove legend, out of the wreck of Swissair Flight 111 came not even one survivor from the 229 people onboard...
...find that your new-car money is gone--don't despair. The worst is probably over. Still, you don't want to risk the grocery money too. You're way ahead if you've been in the market more than a year, so just sell down to your comfort level. But don't overdo it and try to time a further drop. You'll only end up selling at the bottom and cursing the market all the way back...
What's the latest in bipedal transportation? How about relatively affordable ($500 or less) "comfort bikes" with cushy seats, fat tires and--get this--automatic gears. At the Interbike show in Las Vegas this week, Shimano will demonstrate its new Auto-D electronic-shifting system on bikes from Bianci, Schwinn, GT and others. The digital derailleur always starts off in the lowest gear and automatically shifts when a rider pedals faster or slower. It even has a parking-mode feature that locks the wheels until you enter a secret code to release them...