Word: discomforting
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People don't like power when it's not theirs, and they like it even less when they keep falling behind. This is the underlying dynamic that drives Europe's discomfort about the United States: a widening gap between No. 1 and the rest. How is it articulated? The script is practically boilerplate. In polite government circles, the mantra is "unilateralism." Translation: "Those Americans throw their weight around. They respect neither treaties nor traditions. They don't care about their allies unless they need some special forces for Tora Bora. They bestride the world as if it were the Rose...
...others questioned the masters’ wisdom in signing a petition that created “an atmosphere of suspicion and discomfort in their Houses...
...speaking personally, Summers said he understood students’ discomfort...
...ideas are still guesswork. "If we really want to understand these people and develop good ways to prevent pedophilia, we need a national demographic survey," says Berlin. "The funding is minuscule, so the research is incomplete." And politically fraught. Everyone who works in the field constantly negotiates America's discomfort with children and sex. Yet understanding child sexual abuse means not only exploring its prevalence, causes and treatments--issues that focus on the abuser--but finding the best way to help victims cope as well. And that research is positively radioactive...
...another study of cancer patients, at Harvard Medical School, nearly 75% of the subjects did not understand that the trial was investigating a treatment that was not standard. Two-thirds said they did not know they might face additional pain or discomfort. Says Annas: "These trials involve a great deal of mutual self-deception. Patients really want to believe it's treatment, and doctors really want to believe they are curing somebody...