Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confusion seems certain for a while, some Britons took comfort last week in the fact that they still have some peculiarities left. Even while saying goodbye to quids and bobs and thrup'ny bits and all that, they still have chains, rods, gills, pecks and chaldrons. M (for Metric) Day will not come before...
...What a world of comfort true he enjoys withal...
...cars by the Missouri affiliate of the American Automobile Association found that 50% of new autos have "potentially dangerous defects." The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics last year declared that for the first time, auto price increases were not compensated for by improvements in quality. Nor was there much comfort for buyers in the Federal Trade Commission's statement last February that new-car warranties are virtually meaningless. The auto industry has admitted to lapses, though management tends to blame what General Motors Chairman James Roche calls "the effect of employee attitudes toward product quality...
...participation, you have apparently sanctioned or ratified acts of corporate vandalism and social irresponsibility, in comparison to which the bombings and riots of America's so-called student revolutionaries seem dwarfed. Unlike avowed anarchists, the Union Carbide executives you oversee destroy life and property silently, in the temperature-controlled comfort of corporate board rooms. Last year, these executives counted up $144,000,000 of after-tax profits. A portion of these profits were obtained at the cost of the destruction of innocent workers' and peoples' health and property...
...very successful encounter there was one exceedingly bright note. With the number of injuries plaguing the squad, it was of great comfort to coach John Lee to watch 134-pound Gerry Kahrilas pin his opponent in the first period. It was the first bout this season for the transfer student from Brown, who has been out with mononucleosis...