Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter, which was delivered to house residents yesterday, listed the discomfort caused to non-smokers and the hazards of secondary smoke as reasons...
EVEN WHILE THE 102ND CONGRESS RACED TO ADjourn for the campaign finale, the Democrats somehow found time to stick controversial issues smack into President Bush's face. They didn't win many fights, but they did raise the discomfort level in the White House to record levels. To the Republicans' collective relief, the family-leave bill died on Wednesday when the House failed to override Bush's veto of the legislation, which the White House opposed as antibusiness. On Friday the House left Bush's abortion "gag rule" in place, again failing to muster the necessary two-thirds vote...
Four percent is a reasonable figure, slightly above the rate of inflation, neither outlandishly high nor ridiculously low. And it is a figure that, as the staff rightly points out, the University can afford with relatively little financial discomfort...
...world where sexual orientation is polarized into heterosexuality and homosexuality, bisexuality comes as a disturbing challenge, at once a riddle and a discomfort. "It threatens rigidity," says Lani Kaahumanu, a bisexual activist in San Francisco. "It threatens both sides of the framework." Bisexuals often inspire nervousness, distaste and hostility in both straights and gays and are all but ignored by scholars...
Still, many bisexuals, especially men, are racked by discomfort and conflict. About two-thirds of bisexual men are married, notes Wedin, and discovery that a husband is involved with other men can easily wreck a marriage. The husband feels humiliated, and the wife betrayed, not so much by his having sex with men as by his having gone outside the marriage...