Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it will be fun, but televised comedy's not really my thing. The place I feel greatest comfort is in front of a live audience. I get nervous with cameras everywhere. You've got directors telling you to look at this camera, look at this other camera... there are so many areas where you could screw up. There's so much pressure...
...chairman of the board of International Broadcasting for eight years, a position that gave him a little exposure to Washington. His foray into campaign politics so far consists of advising Christine Todd Whitman in her successful run for the New Jersey governorship in 1993. So he takes comfort in the example of Wendell Willkie, the utilities executive and political neophyte who grabbed the G.O.P. nomination in 1940. Forbes is willing to spend $10 million of his own money--an estimated 5% of his fortune--on his outsider...
With the start of a new year, Stauffer's comfort level both on the field and off has grown, which should bode well for the squad's quest for an Ivy League title...
...Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, painting the nails on one hand five different colors and signing a poster for Cal Ripken Jr. ("What wonderful blue eyes," she said of her sports co-star last week.) Seles even took the time to comfort Hungarian junior player Edit Pakay, 15, who was crying in the locker room after her defeat...
...China were to invade Taiwan, the presence of a Seawolf off its coast would certainly not hinder it; Beijing could comfort itself with the knowledge that, given the shaky status of Taiwan, drastic unilateral action taken by the U.S. on such an issue would be impossible, and any multilateral decision would involve at most a humanitarian, peacekeeping initiative. As with SDI and the missile testing deregulation, the uselessness of the Seawolf in international peacekeeping illustrates the Senate's disregard for the increasing internationalization of strategic politics...