Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sidelines watching, with our hands tied by uncertainty and our vision lacking the sharply focused lens provided by the past, as momentous events burst one by one around us. Inevitably, we ask, how could it be? What will happen now? Is there cause for fear...
...wooded suburb of Issaquah in a cedar split-level that cost them $110,000 less than their California home. Even if Kelly's income has dipped 20%, his commute is mercifully brief. At the wheel, he says, he no longer starts at the sound of a backfire for fear it might be a highway shooting. "We were tired of being in the fast lane," says Mary Cutlip, 36. "We wanted a more peaceable, low-key way of life. We wanted our kids to grow up at a slower pace...
When the Maxwells put their house up for sale, they noted that ten of the 30 prospective buyers who came to see it were from California. None of them would admit it at first, for fear the Maxwells might not sell them the property...
...pulled the plug on ABC's plan to televise the 1991 Pan American Games in Cuba, contending the broadcasts would violate the U.S. ban on commerce with Fidel Castro's island. While Cuba could lose $9 million in fees from ABC, a bigger loser might be Atlanta. City officials fear a backlash against the U.S. could damage its bid to host the 1996 Olympics...
...implications of these changes for academia are staggering. Soviet Studies professors, who once took long vacations without anyone's noticing, can't go to the bathroom for fear they'll miss two or three key announcements. They spend their spare hours looking in the dictionary for new phrases to use in their papers...