Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over one of the President's more modest steps to conserve energy: his proclamation requiring most public and commercial buildings in the nation to be cooled to no lower than 78° F this summer. Although health experts assert that such a temperature is within an acceptable human "comfort range," the moaning over this minor inconvenience was widespread...
Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which conceived and launched Skylab six years ago, took comfort in the mathematics of probabilities. Some 500 fragments of the huge space workshop will be dispersed over an area 4,000 miles long and 100 miles wide, a scattering that the scientists call, with anthropomorphic archness, Skylab's "footprint." Moreover, on each of Skylab's 90-minute orbits of the earth, nearly 67 minutes, or 75%, is spent over water. What all that means, contend NASA'S statisticians, is that the chance of any remnant striking a human being is only...
Philosopher Gustav Jäger insisted that man's soul lies in his smells. Wilhelm Fliess, a Berlin doctor and friend of Freud's, regarded the nose as the most important sexual organ. Pop Sexologist Alex Comfort predicts sex signals will be found in underarm odors. In Scent Signals, Author Janet Hopson says "sexones," or sex odors, guide human sexuality...
...stuffy environment in such buildings falls well outside the comfort zone as determined by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers: temperatures of 72° F to 78° F, humidity of 20% to 60%. The engineers' studies also show that under unfavorable conditions, worker productivity falls, on-the-job accidents increase, and employee errors rise. Not to mention frustration levels. "What we're up against," declares Fred Crawford, director of the Center for Research in Social Change at Atlanta's Emory University, "is having our personal freedoms and choices so circumscribed that ordinary...
...prospect of overheated patrons hardly heartens restaurant, movie-house and theater managers. "My customers have been coming to the restaurant to get out of the hot kitchen," says Harry Klingeman, owner of The Indian Trail restaurant in Winnetka, Ill. "They are purchasing comfort." Karl Goedereis, manager of the expensive Houston restaurant Charley's 517, has a different kind of worry. "We'll have to let people in with T shirts," he sighs. "The class of the restaurant will go down...