Word: enviously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam were officially merged in 1976, but the differences remain striking. In general, life in the North seems more pinched, commodities less abundant. Ho's tomb, a sort of brutalist recasting of the Lincoln Memorial in concrete, seems the emblematic postwar construction project. There is, meanwhile, a casual, envious resentment of the mellower South...
Movieland is the ideal roost for a young refugee with big ideas. "Do not listen to the envious and the insensate," warns Pyat. "The illusion of Hollywood is thoroughly tangible." Anything is possible with the Old World in ruins, and Pyat will try anything. He buys a 13-year-old prostitute and reinvents her as a lost soul mate from his Russian childhood; he tours the U.S. as a lecturer for the Ku Klux Klan...
...unprecedented offer, and DeVries' acceptance, shook the hospital community. Some medical researchers are merely envious, but others have a variety of reasons for concern. "There is a significant anti-Humana feeling out there," says Nolen Allen, former chairman of the University of Louisville hospital. "But it is not just Humana. Doctors sense that they are losing control of medical care and that hospital administrators and companies are taking over. At one time, the doctors were kings. That may not be true any more; they are becoming more like employees." Agrees VenderHaar: "It's the same fear...
When businessmen contemplate the success of MTV, they are often as envious as a teen-ager looking at his favorite rock musician. The round-the-clock music-video network carries all the trappings of a corporate superstar. Little more than three years old, MTV already boasts publicity, glamour and millions of loyal viewers. As a result, the cable channel now faces another consequence of success: hungry competitors...
...weighty contemplation. Wilson is forbearing about the sins of the flesh, while the transgressions against reason are greeted with disdain. Conservative authority is the secret hero of this book; hapless liberalism and its freebooting institutions are the goats. The result is a sharp irony concisely expressed by an envious KGB agent: "How could a man reach Blore's position of eminence without being checked or vetted? Questions like this were put in the public mind by the likes of Feathers. In other words, he worried them, and stirred them up. For this, the capitalist press magnates paid him sums...