Word: agita
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...able to afford again until years after graduation. School officials say the improvements, particularly in technology, are needed to accommodate the children of baby boomers, who are used to being indulged at home. But at a time when the spiraling cost of higher education is causing considerable parental agita, some wonder how much college students really need a Jacuzzi down the hall...
...Number of new words, including "brewski," "agita" and "barista," included in the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary...
...with the whole world watching. The film community was ready to give hundreds of millions of viewers a break from all-war-all-the-time TV, and a few winning films the chance to splash a statuette on tens of millions of DVD boxes. And damn the cost in agita and outrageous cell-phone bills. "This has been one of the most difficult Oscar weeks I have ever experienced," Carlos Souza, p.r. maven for the couturier Valentino, told the New York Times...
...Jeff Zucker. "All of those things appeal to us." Risky, yes--enough so that NBC ordered only six episodes. Controversial, maybe. But different? Kingpin follows Miguel Cadena (Yancey Arias), a Mob boss who prefers to think of himself as a captain-of-industry type, who gets both support and agita from a headstrong wife and who wants to shield his son from his bloody business. If you infringed this closely on one of Tony Soprano's construction scams, your head would end up in a bowling bag. Zucker downplays the comparison, saying the show was inspired by a newspaper article...
...running for President of the United States. I'm an actor who makes movies, and that's how I was answering the questions." His anguish turns briefly impish. "I think Sammy Sosa would be an ideal running mate. His enthusiasm, his joy and feel for the game." Then the agita rises again. "Good Lord Almighty! This is how trivial the times we're living in are. I don't even want to talk about it! Argggghhhh...