Word: dyspepsia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is very different from my previous job experience. A writer works alone, even if he or she is physically in an office filled with other people. Among journalists, an occasional bout of dyspepsia or misanthropy is not merely tolerated but expected. A freelance journalist working at home, meanwhile, can spend days, months, years broody and unshaven (or, he sometimes begins to feel, actually dead), and no one will care. As it happens, shaving is not a high priority at the company where I work. But broodiness is acceptable only among the software developers, who are the equivalent of writers...
...saying the anti-incumbency factor has overridden, right, like, completely removed coattails from the Clinton surge...how can they say that Cuomo is worse than Clinton. The man is a seer, he is just the greatest...And our chart shows that white protestants with 2.4 kids and severe dyspepsia...So what are you doing on Friday night?...I've always loved you, you know that. Always...
Publication of a comprehensive poll by the Times Mirror Co. last week compounded insiders' angst by showing that political dyspepsia has worsened. For instance, 78% say that elected federal officials quickly lose touch with constituents (vs. 73% in a comparable poll three years ago). The proposition that ordinary people lack influence on government action gets agreement from 57%, up 5 points...