Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shuttle was also designed to be comfortable. Its spacious three-level cabin will provide ample room for seven, including pilot and copilot, to move around in shirtsleeve comfort in an earthlike pressure and atmosphere. It also contains enough amenities to shatter any sex barriers to space travel. "We've been asked if we would be able to fly women," said one NASA official. "The last guy who said no got fired...
Dream Pastiche. The thought is small comfort, and less justification. Louis Malle, director of Lacombe, Lucien and The Fire Within, is attempting in Black Moon some manner of dream pastiche, a symbolic fantasy of adolescence. The movie is like the ragged end of a halfhearted parlor game played by Freud and Lewis Carroll on a slow summer evening. The young girl's appearance and her slightly prissy ingenuousness come from the Alice books. So do the controlled flights of strangeness. Carroll's wit is lacking, however, and his sense of wonder...
There was some comfort - cold or warm? - offered by the Pentagon, which issued a straight-faced statement last week that in its current files "no plans to invade Canada are extant...
...makes it easier for Ford to distort the issue and deny New York the time it needs to avoid default. Ironically, Ford's plan may ultimately backfire, when as a result of New York's default even Grand Rapids, Michigan, finds itself in trouble. But that will be small comfort to residents of either city...
...should be allowed to rise in order to coax more gas out of the ground and into pipelines to consuming states. At stake were billions of dollars that gas producers and pipeline operators might reap in higher prices, the jobs of workers in industries dependent upon gas, and the comfort of millions of home dwellers. Oklahoma Republican Dewey F. Bartlett warned that if the Democrats succeeded in keeping prices under tight control, gas producers would sue "to seek redress of grievances for confiscation of private property." Ohio Democrat John Glenn retorted for the pro-control side...