Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Burton's past that has been haunting him and giving comfort to the White House. First the New York Times reported he accepted an invitation to play in a Pro-Am golf tournament at Pebble Beach, Calif., sponsored by AT&T, which has business before Burton's committee. AT&T also threw a fund raiser for Burton during the tournament...
...made during the trial resulted in the convictions being overturned. If not for their desire to "allow (the children's) wounds to heal," prosecutors say evidence against the pair would certainly end in a fresh conviction on the 99 charges remaining against them. While that knowledge might provide scant comfort to some, for Susan Small, mother of two of the Little Rascals victims, seeing the abuses aired in a public forum has been vengeance enough. "I'm at peace with the decision. I don't feel like the system has let me down...
Heyday of stained-glass designs by Louis Comfort Tiffany...
...what of second and third and last? Lingering long in my mind will be the physical beauty of Harvard. During my first year, I used to walk through the Old Yard at dusk to catch the first lights as they gleamed from centuries-old dorm windows. These beacons provided comfort and an excursion for the mind: John F. Kennedy '40 lived behind one of these windows, and Ralph Waldo Emerson another, and Quentin Compson another, in William Faulkner's fiction and the collective Harvard consciousness...
...important, a noninflationary 0.6% rise in labor costs in the first quarter. The news sent the Dow surging 179 points, its second best daily performance ever. A day later, investors applied the brakes on hearing that the economy grew an astounding 5.6% in the first quarter--too fast for comfort. But a closer look at the numbers showed inflation remained dormant. Don't put away the Dramamine just yet. The markets were jolted again on Friday after the jobless rate sank to a near 24-year low of 4.9%. Very inflationary. Later in the day, however, Washington's announcement...