Word: comfort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...follow too closely what the newspapers say," he says. He sees positive signs from quick, agile guards; big, strong tackles; a well-tuned Richie Horner; and a personal comfort with the Multiflex. The kicking game----well even St. John admits it cold be a Harvard disaster. But still he says he's aiming for an Ivy title...
Insurers have taken some comfort from the latest turn in the Egan case: the California Supreme Court has ordered the punitive award to be cut. Noting that the $5 million sum amounted to nearly 60% of Mutual's 1974 net income, the court said that the award was bloated by the "passion and prejudice" of the jury. A new trial must now be held to set a fairer award, but the decision left no doubt that courts could continue to exact punitive damages from insurance companies...
...the.B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League to the Council on Interracial Books for Children all pushed for revisions of textbook passages they considered demeaning. Even poor Squanto was taken to task by the Interracial Books people because by helping the Pilgrims, he had given aid and comfort to a foreign invader...
Frank Trippett's analogies to France, Germany and Japan are poor choices. Most of the U.S. lies south of much of Europe in a climate not always amenable to human endeavors. The choice is not cool comfort vs. "sweatshops"; it is gross national production vs. noonday siesta...
...everybody is aware that high cost and easy comfort are merely two of the effects of the vast cooling of America. In fact, air conditioning has substantially altered the country's character and folkways. With the dog days at hand and the thermostats ostensibly up, it is a good time to begin taking stock of what air conditioning has done besides lower the indoor temperature...