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...secure their seat belts. An hour later, the 747 made an emergency landing at San Francisco International airport, on wheels that were intact despite the damage to the jet's underbelly. On touchdown, Ming received a round of heartfelt applause; he in turn apologized for any "inconvenience and discomfort." Fifty passengers suffered minor injuries during the dive, and two flight attendants were hospitalized with back injuries...
...reputations of certain first-choice Houses have led administrators like Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 to say he has "discomfort" with the current housing system in which Houses fall way short of the ideal "microcosm" of the College...
...historically opposed the current lottery, says he still has "difficulties" and "discomfort" with a system based on student choice...
...generally acknowledged to have been the L.I.R.R.'s nadir, a period of such egregious discomfort that at least a small part of the growth of the Sunbelt can be traced to the conditions on the commuter line. The railroad was 150 last year, and there are definite signs of improvement. Last year 88.5% of the trains arrived within five minutes of the schedule--up 6% since 1979. It may be better than it was in the '70s, but it is not yet as good as it was in 1902, when Teddy Roosevelt's summer White House lay in Oyster...
...tranquilly collecting tickets. "It takes 20 minutes to get through two cars. Sometimes by Jamaica I get through. Sometimes I never get through." He is accompanied in his polite progression through the thrashing mass by hostile remarks about the unions, which the riders blame for much of their discomfort. The conductor passes below full-color images of joy and transformation: a naked woman wrapped in a quilt leaning against the knee of a man stroking her hair, a brilliantly lighted couple kissing forever...