Word: discomfort
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...settlement of the war. He has not so much led as let himself be led -- by French pressure and his own more hawkish advisers. Given his months of pledges and backdowns, he has hardly prepared the country to invest in Bosnia. But a President whose discomfort with security issues is physically visible and whose foreign policy had seemed to be dominated by a fear of body bags has now placed himself and the country in a position of risk...
...stumbles to a chair and despairs at the impossibility of ver reading newspaper. Lives are restructured around treatment whose side effects are a mortal disease in themselves. Each person is assigned a number, ostensibly in order to ensure confidentiality. In this way, the healthy can cope with their discomfort by distancing themselves from the sick through this denial of their identities. Fairly soon, these numbers will become statistics...
...rifle was an Enfield 30.06, and Beckwith's fingerprint was found on the scope; his white Valiant was seen parked nearby; he later bragged at a Ku Klux Klan meeting, "Killing that nigger gave me no more inner discomfort than our wives endure when they give birth to our children." Yet he has remained free...
...keep an accurate record of the effect of these substances, such as, gains in weight and other improvements, particularly in the blood. It will be necessary to make some blood tests at stated intervals, similar to those to which our patients are already accustomed, and which will cause no discomfort or change in their physical condition other than possibly improvement. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to reward patients taking part...
America's discomfort in its new role is reflected in a foreign policy characterized by thinly veiled double-speak. The Clinton administration maintains that China's continuing Most Favored Nation status hinges on its improving human-rights performance. But this "threat" is so hedged that it is worthless. According to Christopher, "We don't expect them to remedy all the wrongs...