Word: comfortable
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Like Lewis, countless other managers and entrepreneurs are coming to Denver to live amid its comfort and culture while their hired roughnecks and miners squeeze the energy from the rural outposts. Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming contain 48% of the nation's proven coal reserves, 15% of its oil and 10% of its natural gas. Many geologists believe that these estimates substantially understate the area's true energy wealth. Rising prices make it worthwhile for oilmen to drill into sites that previously were considered too risky or too costly to develop. Some experts figure that new oil finds...
Some two inches thick and based on many hours of hearings, the NRC report will be some comfort to those who design and build reactors used to generate electricity. It states categorically that although the Pennsylvania plant was not "fail-safe," its equipment and emergency procedures "were adequate to have prevented the serious consequences of the accident, if they had been permitted to function or be carried out as planned." Trouble is, neither the equipment nor the preprogrammed safety procedures built into the Babcock & Wilcox reactor really got a chance...
...active sexuality for these two is well in the future. But there is no pretense that it is not coming. Daniel and a buddy persuade Lauren to see a porno flick. She watches for a few minutes, then walks out, feeling sick. Daniel follows, ashamed of himself, trying to comfort her. Lauren nods; she is all right. She did not enjoy her view of the hydraulics of sex, but it has done no damage. The viewer feels that real children are, in fact, like this...
Everybody by now is aware that the cost of the American way is enormous, that air conditioning is an energy glutton. It uses some 9% of all electricity produced. Such an extravagance merely to provide comfort is peculiarly American and strikingly at odds with all the recent rhetoric about national sacrifice in a period of menacing energy shortages. Other modern industrial nations such as Japan, Germany and France have managed all along to thrive with mere fractions of the man-made coolness used in the U.S., and precious little of that in private dwellings. Here, so profligate...
...interiors are strikingly modern in design, and sport natural-wood surfaces, tasteful wallpaper and extra-long beds. Each suite has its own kitchen, balcony and bath. Compared with Montreal, where as many as eleven athletes were crammed into a single apartment, the Moscow facility should be a paradigm of comfort. Security measures should be less obtrusive too. There will be two circles of fencing, and gates will be closely monitored, but armed soldiers will not be perched on balconies as they were...