Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Davis, class tension "comes up mostly in terms of comfort with being in the position of consumer. I'll go into a store with a friend, and [they will] just have a sense that they know how to work the system better. They'll know to ask questions about the product...
...first quarter, the markets would have legitimate reason for concern that inflation is building and the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates. "Today's report is additional evidence that the economy is not overheating and inflation remains well under control," says Baumohl. "Wall Street seems to have found comfort in the employment numbers and has rebounded from the loss of the previous day." More good news came with figures from the Commerce Department showing that although incomes have increased by 0.5 percent, consumer spending has increased by 0.6 percent. "This means that consumers feel so comfortable with their finances that...
Last week, when Dole sat down with Bush to discuss China and other matters, he could take comfort from the ex-President's experience. But not too much. Bush won the White House after facing one of the most hapless campaigners in memory. Dole is facing one of the best...
...steady, relentless drip-drip-drip of degradation and disappointment. What is the price of forbearance in the challenging of injustice, and when does stoicism turn into fatalism? Cities like Bombay are routinely given tags like "City of Hope" or "City of Dreadful Night"; Mistry digs beneath the comfort of such abstractions to a level of complexity where murderers command our sympathy and philanthropists live off beggars. The fine balance that gives the title to his book asks us, unforgettably, where we draw the line "between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness...
...disciplining her family. Margaret's subsequent marriage to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones exploded in mutual infidelities after a few years. Elizabeth could be formidably cool. Once, Margaret threatened to jump out her window if a friend who was hosting a house party did not leave his guests to comfort her at home. Panicked, the host called the Queen. "Carry on with your party," she said. "Her room is on the ground floor...