Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modem, "Net TV" would seem to make perfect sense. After all, nearly everybody in America has a TV and a telephone, and many are presumably curious to learn what the World Wide Web is all about. If they could use their existing sets to access the Infobahn from the comfort of their La-Z-Boys, the Web might finally become the mass medium its promoters have been promising all along...
Even more frightening is the idea that this was not the handiwork of an established group. Any major terrorist organization would have claimed credit by now, cashing in the political chips they bought with other people's lives. There is a twisted sense of comfort in fingering an established suspect. You feel as if you can deal with them, kill them, contain them, do whatever it takes to stop the violence. But at least you have that precious commodity, so elusive in terrorist attacks: a sense of control...
...called grief-therapy expert assigned to me went into his act. According to him, I had good memories to comfort me and could look to the future with hope. He started barking questions at me about Theo. What year in school was she? What were her hobbies? I told him to leave me alone. My grief was the grief of Greek tragedy, his response the verbal junk food of psychobabble. My husband, sunk in his own grief, told the "expert" to leave. He refused. My husband had to threaten to grab him by the neck and throw...
...eight glorious weeks, students travel from around the globe--Mexico and Peru, France and Belgium, Germany and Denmark, China and Japan, Thailand and South Korea--to Harvard for summer school to learn English or improve the English they already know. They enthusiastically leave their comfort zones to live in Cambridge, a foreign land with foreign food and foreign people...
...Relax the Back, the nation's largest back-products chain (55 stores, $30 million in anticipated sales this year): "When I got into this business eight years ago, I expected most of our customers to be senior citizens. I was wrong. It is the baby boomers who insist on comfort and feeling good. And they are willing to spend money...