Word: anxious
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Apart from the ready access to high-speed online porn, what makes this recession different from others is that it's centered on real estate and thus on people's homes, which may explain why women are feeling more anxious about it than men are. In a survey released in October by the American Psychological Association (APA), more women than men reported feeling stress about money (83% vs. 78%) and the economy (84% vs. 75%). And women were more likely than men to say they had symptoms of stress--including irritability and weariness. Plus, their stress levels had risen more...
...issues of the world today—one such concern being what the government is really doing and what information they are withholding. Another strength of the movie is composer Andrew Lockington’s original score. His fast-paced and jumpy music carries the movie, making the viewer anxious about what will happen next. Although our anticipation is not always satisfied, Lockington contributes as much as he can to the overall impact of “City of Ember.” Doon’s father, played by Robbins, advises him, “If you have truth...
...count for much. What emerges is that temperament is as elusive as it is essential. George W. Bush probably wasn't lying in the 2000 campaign when he promised a humble foreign policy. He just had no idea what was coming. F.D.R. probably was lying when he promised the anxious parents of 1940 that "your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." Always be sincere, Harry Truman said, even if you don't mean it. The presidency is less an office than a performance: Who saw the gloom and glower behind Eisenhower's incandescent grin? This...
...Mistral says, but also promises from governments that further failures like that of Lehman Brothers would not be allowed to happen. "We've avoided the worst and will probably see things returning to close to normal," Mistral says. "Still, we've got two to three months of anxious waiting to see how bad the wider economic outlook will...
...Wall Street crisis has driven Bush's approval ratings to new depths, and McCain, at the helm of Bush's gop, is struggling to escape the undertow. Nearly two-thirds of the 1,098 people sampled in the national poll said they personally are going backward economically. Among these anxious voters, Obama had opened a huge lead - some 25 percentage points - over McCain. Obama appears to be succeeding in his effort to get past traditional racial politics. A majority of all voters agreed with the notion that Obama "isn't white or black; he's a little of both." Obama...