Comfort
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For some, the Dream was Americans’ belief that their economy was a cornucopia of goods sure to bring a standard of living unimaginable in other economies: the dream of unrivaled plenty and
comfort.
But the details of the treaty offer little
comfort
to a region that is still recovering from the economic devastation wrought by those wars.
As Zimmer wrote in the University of Chicago Magazine in 2016, “Universities cannot be viewed as a sanctuary for
comfort
but rather as a crucible for confronting ideas.”
Indeed, by his words and example, the Pope disrupts the world: it wants to live in wealth and comfort; he reminds us that we must also live in dignity.
A key lesson from the Great Inflation of the 1970’s is that central banks can’t afford a false sense of
comfort
from any dichotomy between headline and core inflation.
By extending well beyond their
comfort
zone, today’s central banks face unusual brand-management risks.
Would you draw
comfort
from your country’s impressive internal resilience and offset the deflationary winds blowing from the West; or would you play it safe and increase your country’s precautionary reserves?
In Texas or Las Vegas, freedom is the
comfort
of carrying your trusty firearms anywhere you like.
At the other end, conservatism in many European countries has historically veered too close for
comfort
to right-wing extremism.
Slowly, step by step, a legal and social noose tightens around these cultivated Italians, who took their lives of
comfort
and influence for granted.
Should we draw
comfort
from gradual healing in advanced countries and solid growth in emerging economies?
Not surprisingly, that prospect offers scant
comfort
to China.
And when these acts are carried out at the request of a democracy, those who implement them have no secret society of fellow torturers to turn to for social support or
comfort.
So, rather than taking
comfort
in populist parties’ relatively weak performance in this month’s election, Germany’s political class should take action.
This is a basic social truth that most people know from their personal lives: Happiness and harmony are far more important than the empty
comfort
of being convinced you’re right.
The fact that Peabody Energy is still operating, and thus technically not stranded, is probably of little
comfort
to its owners.
China’s consumers should also draw
comfort
from the likely move to market-based deposit rates on their savings accounts, which will reinforce incremental growth in wage income.
Even the army’s new uniforms, which border on the comic with their eighteenth-century epaulets and World War II jackets, invoke the past, rather than provide the
comfort
and efficiency needed in modern warfare.
Although this may be challenging for investors, we should take
comfort
in the implications for the real economy.
In fact, stepping out of one’s
comfort
zone may offer significant benefits.
Inflation there is already too high for
comfort.
Every time investment picks up, the current-account deficit grows too large for
comfort.
For example, mobile apps have been touted as a means to boost voter turnout: people could vote at their convenience, whether in the break-room at work or from the
comfort
of their own home.
For too long, the virtues of a globalized world have been expounded from the
comfort
of self-contained talking shops.
But this interpretation, while convenient, can provide only false
comfort.
Amid economic struggle, national identity crises, and populist fearmongering – all amplified by social media – there is some sense in gravitating toward voices and ideas that provide
comfort
and an outlet for frustration.
Benedict Egbuna's five-year old son, Benedict Jr., born five months after the slaughter of his father, is a source of
comfort
to both of us and to all who knew his father.
You who ask me to give up our jihad,and to live a life of
comfort
and happiness,Don’t waste your breath.
Corporate scandals often reveal where business and government are too close for comfort, as when senior members of Toshiba’s executive team and board, for example, sit on Japanese government panels and commissions.
Its sole comfort, it seems, is that it has not yet withered away.
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