Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Knowing the limits of comfort, [students] know that success will not confer intrinsic worth," Steinberg says...
Increasing minority hiring can also help business. First Chicago Bank's Barr says she believes customers tend to choose banks where they find the comfort of employees who "look like" them. She cites a sense of security when people see others of their ethnicity who have been successful...
...weight limit on such delivery parcels from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. in February 1994. Dawson, 37, underwent surgery for a ruptured disk but has been disabled ever since. Today she blames the company for jacking up the weight limit beyond what workers had learned to handle with comfort. "I wouldn't have been injured otherwise," she says...
...wouldn't be surprised if there was an injury because [the facility now] is too busy for comfort," says junior Whitney Smith, who plays goalie for the Harvard women's hockey team and mid-fielder for the field hockey team. "I certainly think [the destruction of Carey Cage] is going to have an impact on the way people approach off-season training because it's such a hassle...
Perhaps that is healthier than the alternative. Perhaps it is an easier way to live. But perhaps there is a certain comfort to be enjoyed as well in knowing that life is more precious than our finals and more precious than our occupation next year...