Word: fears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reich also carried the discussion to U.S. economics. He said "adaptive policies"--the ability of citizens to move without fear of losing social services--as necessary for economic growth. He also suggested that governments make the process of starting a small business easier...
...want to check e-mail but fear The Board is monitoring the Internet for my whereabouts. I pray they aren't torturing my friends back East...
...some extent a romance, Faulks wrote of sappers tunneling under trenches in World War I, listening for opposing tunnelers, waiting to be blown up and buried under yards of mud. The new novel is not so bloody, but like Birdsong it evokes vividly the erosion of nerve worked by fear, hunger, illness and the dimming of peaceful life to an unconvincing, half-remembered fantasy...
Whoa. Just a decade ago, Nissan was synonymous with Japan Inc., the business goliath that was devouring America. The auto company's fuel-thrifty sedans and zippy 240Z sports car put the fear in Detroit long before the Toyota Camry or Honda Accord ever saw a drafting table. Nissan's success gave weight to the myth that Japanese companies were run by enlightened executives who worked in frictionless synchronicity with workers to produce superior cars. In his best-selling book The Reckoning, David Halberstam suggested that U.S. industry, namely the Ford Motor Co., would be consigned to a never-ending...
...useful to put away "some extra cans of food for New Year's Day 2000." But computers or not, trucks will still roll on the highways come January 1, and any disruptions in food distribution will be minor. "The real problem," says Elmer-Dewitt, "is panic -- fear of the problem rather than the problem itself...