Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women participating in certain forums less than men, and why are they overrepresented elsewhere? In part, many women undergraduates say they fear voicing their opinions in a public forum, even though they would like to do so. But women are not only avoiding intimidating situations, it seems they are also choosing comfortable ones, areas where the focus is on personal relations rather than systemic power plays...
...undergone a dramatic transformation since Stalin's era, when numbed citizens queued for news of arrested relatives. Once a crude weapon of repression, it now functions as a sophisticated instrument of state control, both at home and abroad. But despite the change of image, the KGB still inspires fear and loathing. As a letter in the magazine Ogonyok put it last August, "The time has come to lift the curtain of secrecy from the KGB's activities -- otherwise how can it be controlled by a society that knows nothing about...
...Thailand has come to Hollywood (there are scores of Thai restaurants on Melrose Avenue alone), Hollywood has come to Thailand (shooting across the political spectrum, from The Killing Fields to Rambo III). So giddy is the world's romance with the smiling kingdom, in fact, that some people fear the country could lose itself in the lights, or turn into a synthetic version of itself...
Inevitably, some people fear that all this profit cannot come without a loss. The paradox of beauty is that it will not be left alone; it begs, almost, to be compromised, homogenized, packaged or roughed up. And Thailand has certainly been industrious in marketing its smiles. By now, 77 companies offer hill-tribe treks in Chiangmai alone, and Pattaya, a quiet fishing village just two decades ago, is a bloated red-light area studded with 256 hotels. Indeed, the metaphor of selling out is given flesh by the embarrassing statistics of Thailand's sex trade: perhaps 250,000 women...
BUSINESS: A year after the crash, the fear lingers...