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...Perot seriously as a political threat. In the latest TIME/CNN poll, 52% of the respondents have a generally favorable opinion of Perot, while only 50% have a similar opinion of Clinton personally (and many fewer approve of the job he is doing as President). On Perot's current major bugbear, the North American Free Trade Agreement, 63% agree with him that it will result in a loss of American jobs, vs. only 25% who believe with Clinton that it will create jobs...
...However," the usage instruction goes on to say, "this usage is by now such a bugbear to traditionalists that it is best avoided on grounds of civility, if not logic...
...were inclined to launch a crusade against women or feminism. Said Rossler: "It's important that the men's movement not be portrayed as antiwoman. Sexism has affected us as detrimentally as it has affected women." In fact, the women's movement seems to be as much model as bugbear to the wounded males. Like feminists, conventioners complained about sexist ads, including two showing a female pulling a male toward her with his tie. "The tie represents a sexist noose or perhaps a leash," said Fredric Hayward of Sacramento. The men celebrated small victories. In response to lobbying...
...apologies I don't know where to begin," he opened one missive in 1950, and variations on this formula abound in his letters. He disarmed anger or outrage through self-castigation: "My selfish carelessness and unpunctuality I do not try to excuse as poet's properties. They are a bugbear & a humbug...
...Supreme Court. But the accent in the court's voice seems to be changing too, as evidenced by the praise showered on last week's crèche decision by some of the conservative religious groups that have long seen the court as their special bugbear...