Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same kind of chord sequences and the same kind of rhythm references and the same recycling of subject matter. But I don't think it's a problem. I mean, traditional musical forms like folk music in three chords or blues are endearing to Americans. They find some comfort in them...
...even as investors take comfort in sound fundamentals, they look with alarm at the return of the greedy speculation and electronic sorcery that are blamed for the crash. The market has reacted with near hysteria to the possibility of takeovers, first in the communications industry in response to the Time-Warner deal and now in the airline business in the wake of bids for the companies that own Northwest and United Airlines. The takeover-stock mania has coincided with the return of program trading, a system in which brokerage houses use computers to buy and sell giant blocks of stock...
...home the Japanese enjoy the soothing comfort of a hot ofuro, their traditional bath. On the road it's not so easy. Trying to re-create abroad their beloved steaming, full-tub soak, Japanese tourists have acquired a reputation for wreaking havoc on British hotel bathrooms...
Passenger Moriarty said many of the travelers were on business, which he credited with the calm atmosphere. "They were thinking of their business appointments," he said. Still, passengers took comfort from each other he said...
Though a string of spy cases in recent years has involved naval men, embassy guards and intelligence analysts, U.S. officials could take comfort in the belief that none had implicated an American diplomat -- until now. The State Department last week confirmed that the FBI is probing whether Felix S. Bloch, a 30-year Foreign Service veteran and the No. 2 man at the U.S. embassy in Austria from 1981 to 1987, has been working...