Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flare-up of factional feuding was of particular concern to Pakistan and the U.S., which have long feared that internal disputes might divert the rebels from fighting the Najibullah government. Washington urged the mujahedin to forgo further infighting in favor of the "vital work of improving unity and coordination" at a time when the Kabul regime is increasingly assertive on the military and political fronts -- and the guerrillas' drive has faltered. Whatever the fallout, the prospect for future unity is bleak. U.S. analysts fear that once Najibullah is ousted, mujahedin factions will turn on one another in the effort...
State law requires control measures on infested property. But chemical spraying, the only real choice in some areas, disturbs environmentalists. They say the more effective pesticides can wipe out virtually all insects in an area and may also threaten drought-weakened wildlife. Organic farmers fear that the chemicals will taint their crops, shutting them out of a lucrative market. Yet if nothing is done soon, the problems could multiply: the maturing locusts are expected to lay more eggs in August...
Compare that with the prospects of today's patient: what was once miraculous is now mundane. The flutist has her severed hand sewn back on. The man with the transplanted heart goes skiing. As a society, Americans are living longer and well and with less to fear from diseases that ravaged whole generations. Life expectancy has jumped during this century from 47 to 75 years. And yet the physicians, victims of their own success, are finding that however swift the advance of medical knowledge, it is still outpaced by public expectations. "The public thinks that all diseases should be treatable...
Despite slipping retail sales, most consumers profess relatively little fear about the economy. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 6 out of 10 adults described current conditions as fairly good or very good, down only a trifle compared with January. Looking ahead to the next twelve months, 72% expected conditions to stay the same or improve, while just 24% of those polled saw the economy getting worse. Asked about their spending plans in the coming year, 65% said they thought it would be a good time to buy a major household item -- a refrigerator...
...could have been much worse. Only hours earlier Aung San's daughter Aung San Suu Kyi, 44, the general-secretary of the opposition National League for Democracy, had canceled a scheduled protest march out of fear that the ruling military junta would turn it into a massacre. Said Suu Kyi in a letter sent to political parties throughout the city: "Let the world know that under this administration the Burmese people are like prisoners in their own homes...