Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shelton, the news of the indictments was small comfort. The unemployment rate in town is a high 14%, and nearly 300 of the people left jobless by the bombing are still out of work. It is likely that Sponge Rubber Products will fold altogether, bad news for the 600 people working at its three other plants still operating in the area. Says Lloyd Witmer, an aide to Shelton's mayor: "You hear comments like 'So they caught the people who did it, so now they'll bring them to trial. But what does that...
...Linguistics, proposed to the council that the catalog revert to the old listings, with titles--but the council decided this week to take a more radical step and simply list the unadorned names of professors. Students may not even notice the change, but if they do they should take comfort in the knowledge that in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, nothing happens by accident...
MELVIN LAIRD, 52. Ford's closest friend while in the House, Laird (who held a Wisconsin seat for 16 years) provided advice and comfort for the new President during his trying early days in the White House. Laird could be useful in mending fences with Congress. When he was summoned by Nixon to restore order to the White House at the height of Watergate, he was not so much as brushed by the scandal. Unlike almost everyone else who got close to Nixon in his last year in office, Laird emerged with his reputation totally intact. A practical politician...
...dependence on fixed rates is axiomatic; were it not for an emergency 8% commission increase granted last November by the SEC-a fillip that boosted fourth-quarter profits in a withering market-Wall Street as a whole would probably have lost money last year. And there is little comfort for the Street in knowing that negotiated rates are really nothing new. They went into effect four years ago on trades of $500,000 and above, a move that benefited large institutional investors such as life insurance companies, pension funds, mutual funds and banks. In 1972, the breakpoint was lowered...
...were one of the tardy who arrived at the ballpark the other day just in time to see Luis Tiant throw his final warm-up pitch, you quickly realized that your afternoon would not be spent relaxing in the bleachers, nor would you view the game from the comfort of a box seat. No, you would be one of the many disgruntled spectators whose ticket stub read STANDING ROOM...