Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...