Word: comfortable
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There are travel agents who will argue that if such carriers as Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France and Swissair were allowed to fly the U.S. domestic routes, they could put a few of America's airlines out of business. Ask any world travelers about the difference in comfort and service and, particularly, the quality of food, and many would say there is no contest. U.S. carriers are notorious for serving meals that are poorly conceived, badly prepared and sometimes unhealthy. By contrast, the food on many non-U.S. carriers, even when catered by the very same firms, is generally...
...office position. On the other end, we're bringing younger minorities and women who are not advanced in their careers into lower-echelon positions within a sports organization. The idea is to get them into the loop, learning the business and moving up through the system and into the comfort zone of those who do the hiring. The individuals who tend to be hired are usually those known to the people in authority...
...Saints (22-5 overall, 18-4 ECAC), seeded second behind Harvard, beat the seventh-seeded Elis (11-17-1, 10-12) in both of their regular-season meetings, but can draw little comfort from these victories. Each game was decided late in the third period, and Yale will be looking to keep it close again this weekend...
Alaskans could at least take comfort from the knowledge that the weather could have been even worse. The state got nowhere close to the world's record low-temperature reading. That was a frosty -128.6 degrees F, recorded in faraway Antarctica...
Consider, for example, the Washlet, a technological wonder that takes the guesswork out of cleaning up. A kind of toilet bowl-cum-bidet, the Washlet sprays a water jet, then dries with a blast of warm air. For added comfort, the seat is heated. It even has a safety device: to prevent the mechanically inquisitive from being sprayed in the face, the water nozzle will not work until a sensor registers the presence of a seat upon the seat. The fruit of a two-year survey of the Japanese anatomy -- in search of the perfect angle for the water nozzle...