Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall of 1973, he has not been able to emerge from the growing cluster of candidates. Bentsen is still so far down in the preferential polls that he is not even listed. Less than 40% of the electorate know who he is-a statistic that nevertheless gives him some comfort. "A year ago, only 3% recognized my name," he says. "I consider that progress." His chief political adviser, Benjamin Palumbo, thought that was not sufficient progress. He urged Bentsen to speed up his campaign and try to become the front runner. Bentsen seemed to vacillate for a while and then...
...forgotten. So was the softspoken, thoughtful Joplin, a friendly man who had always been willing to listen to other musicians. He was apparently something of a wandering lover, as the dedications of The Sycamore to Minnie L. Montgomery and Leola to Miss Minnie Wade suggest. But he craved the comfort and security of marriage. His first failed: the former Belle Hayden had no interest in his music, and their baby daughter died in infancy. His second marriage, to Lottie Stokes, seemed perfect, and Lottie stood by him as he exhausted himself and his money trying to get Treemonisha produced...
...many, of course, the statistics themselves are small comfort. For blacks and other minorities in particular, the signs of an improving economy seem to bring no improvement in their own high unemployment. Even for Americans secure in their jobs, inflation diminishes their present income and makes the future more worrisome...
...moment, other nations can take comfort from the fact that the U.S. will be cooperating with their stimulative plans, though not necessarily by design. If growth forecasts, now in the 7% to 8% range for the fourth quarter, prove correct, the U.S. recovery should spill over, through trade, more rapidly than expected-especially to Canada. Europe should also get a special boost from the spectacular and generally unexpected recovery of the dollar on foreign exchange markets. Reacting to rising interest rates in the U.S., foreign exchange dealers have bid the dollar up 7% to 8% against the major European currencies...
Those Americans who do still make it to Europe are largely the affluent. Indeed, the European travel industry finds some comfort in the fact that Americans are still the biggest spenders around; in France they shell out an average $63 a day, v. $26 for the Germans.* But almost everywhere Yankee tourists have been learning home truths abroad: they have been buying less, staying at cheaper hotels, taking subways and buses. Many have discovered the less traveled provinces of France, such as Burgundy and Périgord, where $5 still buys a good dinner with wine. Others have stretched shrunken...