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...also compiling a long list of possible conservation measures whose feasibility depends on the price of oil. "There are some things worth doing at $50 per barrel that aren't worth doing at $40 per barrel," he said. "It's also a question of how much inconvenience and discomfort you are willing to tolerate," he added...
...CHALLENGE such an overwritten characterization? Not really, though Golding descends to verbose depths more than once, at one point calling his Hell the "inchoate unorchestra of the lightless spaces." He gets away with such a weird combination of words and images only because it parallels the confusion and discomfort that his characters express in their infernal discoveries...
...lead to the same problem.) Dr. Stephen Stone of Springfield, Ill., had one patient whose upper back, shoulder to shoulder, was crisscrossed by marks resulting from sitting too near a wood-burning stove. His advice: "Stay a reasonable distance away. If the heat is intense enough to cause discomfort, that is too close." He further warns that ordinary apparel offers little protection; the heat will penetrate through cloth...
Ernest R. May, professor of History, said Carter's actions "will only cause very modest discomfort in the Soviet Union," adding the actions Carter can take are "very limited, because the U.S. does no have much leverage in Moscow...
...with its longstanding and much vaunted intramural volatility ("We've been breaking up ever since the day we started," says Vocalist Roger Daltrey), are a large measure of its appeal and, ironically, the core of much of its strength. It is also the source for a good deal of discomfort and antagonism among those who take rock music casually, and especially among those who would like never to put up with...