Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advertising and research "pros." She recalls them as gnomish little men who denigrated an audience of older women and told her that old "broads" and "gals" didn't want to see pictures of themselves. They smugly reiterated the Madison Avenue maxim: Youth is beauty. "The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality," explains Lear, who despite the tumult plowed ahead and chose to remain a solo financial player to ensure her control of the enterprise. Kevin Buckley, the first editor during the bruising start-up, nonetheless credits Lear "as the first to see that most...
...been holding the line against short-range-weapons talks out of fear that negotiations will lead to a supposedly terrible state of affairs in Europe known as "denuclearization" -- the removal of all nuclear weapons from the Continent. According to the NATO catechism, denuclearization would make Europe "safe" for a conventional war that the Warsaw Pact, with its much vaunted superiority in soldiers and tanks, might be tempted to start and could probably win. According to another article of the dark faith, a denuclearized Western Europe would be "Finlandized": France, Italy and Belgium, but above all the Federal Republic of Germany...
...mixed reception as economists debated whether the figures foreshadowed merely sluggish growth or a genuine recession. Bullish investors initially set off a rally Friday on the assumption that inflation might no longer be a danger and the Federal Reserve Board would soon allow interest rates to fall. But fear of a slump took hold later in the day, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to 2381.96 at the closing bell, down 2.94 points for the day and 36.84 for the week...
...miles of American land is clearly more affluent, it is also, in a curious way, more derelict. "You'll notice that the ceremonies in Western Samoa are much more relaxed," says John Enright, American Samoa's Folk Arts Coordinator. "Over here they're more uptight. There's always a fear that they're losing their traditions, or that they won't get things quite right. I think of this island as a kind of retail store of Samoan traditions, with Western Samoa as the warehouse...
Even so, consumer advocates fear that with the scarcity of competing ; carriers at many airports, surviving airlines will not hesitate to roll prices back up. At Danforth's urging, the General Accounting Office is currently comparing changes in airfares over the past five years at 53 airports to determine whether carriers that dominate traffic at certain hubs are jacking up their prices to exorbitant levels...