Word: discomforted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics have likened TV watching to drug addiction. But as the big three networks have learned to their discomfort, viewing -- at least of particular programs or channels -- is a habit considerably easier to kick than cocaine or heroin. That is why the rejoicing over last week's settlement of a 150-day strike by the Writers Guild of America was quickly tempered by caution. For the networks, their audiences and the writers themselves, the battle may be over but its effects will linger for months, perhaps years, to come...
...Collioure, under Van Gogh's spell, with the hot colors and white light of the Midi. Prodded by his friends Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy, he began to paint the colder northern light of Antwerp in a fauve style. But in this early work there is a sense of discomfort. Braque did not draw very well, and, as he lacked the graphic fluency of his mentors, his responses to fauvism were awkward and corseted...
...burning eyes, fatigue, dizziness, and even made breathing difficult. Despite bright, well-scrubbed appearances, many of today's workplaces are aswirl with noxious pollutants. An estimated one-fifth to one-third of U.S. buildings are considered "sick": they contain areas in which more than 20% of employees suffer acute discomfort that is often eased when they leave the premises. "SBS sneaks up on you," says Research Scientist Michael McCawley of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Predicts McCawley: "Office air quality will be one of the big problems of the 1990s...
...happily brief period was an employee in a union situation, I am not surprised. I can testify that the discomfort will not end if the union wins the election. Economic democracy as exemplified by union representation can be fine in theory and fine also in practice for some (particularly for the advocates who become union officers) but it can be desperately unpleasant for many, particularly for those who may not have the zeal or objectives of the leadership. There can be all the stress of union meetings, oratory and public votes, with the nastiness of peer pressure, office friction...
...Agha, founder of a watchdog group called the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, is concerned about the quality of life for the new breeds. Producing a cow that gives three times as much milk as a normal Guernsey, he notes, could mean producing a cow that lives in acute discomfort. Says he: "We have the prospect of creating animals that may be in continual agony." Others fret that the release of genetically engineered animals, such as fatter mice or more aggressive game fish, might result in ecological disaster...