Word: fretfully
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Europeans fret that Japan's ascendance could diminish their own global stature. Pacific Rim nations recall Japan's World War II aggression and occupation of their countries and half suspect that, beneath a patina of civility, the Japanese have not fundamentally changed. The U.S., the world's No. 1 debtor nation, voices a mixture of concern and admiration. "No country is more important to our economic future than Japan," says Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. "You want Japan to assume more foreign policy responsibility in the world, but in partnership with...
...gloss being put on the Moscow summit is that it is an intimate human drama, an Aquarius-Pisces encounter. Skeptics rightly fret at the danger in personalizing relations between the two powers: personal rapport is not the same as shared national interests. Yet Reagan is far more comfortable addressing human issues than abstract interests, and Gorbachev is certainly willing to try to manipulate that inclination. When Gorbachev got the President alone in Reykjavik's cramped Hofdi House in October 1986, they spun off toward the stratosphere of abolishing nuclear weapons before crashing back to earth. When they wander off after...
...trickier problem for Bush is how to use the 800-lb. political gorilla named Ronald Reagan. Some advisers doubt that Reagan will be very helpful in the fall election. They fret that Bush may seem diminished when placed next to Reagan, either literally or figuratively. Reagan was expected to endorse Bush this week at a Washington victory party, their first 1988 joint political appearance. Even so, Bush and the White House have worked out a plan for Reagan to put in only a brief appearance at the G.O.P. convention, thus keeping the spotlight on the nominee...
...Noriega, they reject charges of a policy vacuum. "We always envisioned continually escalating economic pressure," says a senior Administration official. "We have avoided doing anything dramatic because we don't want to cause permanent damage to the Panamanian economy." Yet as U.S. banks contemplate pulling out of Panama, pessimists fret that Panama's service economy is being ravaged beyond repair; optimists predict that it will take a decade to restore investors' confidence in the country. Grouses a Panamanian official: "The American strategy has all the subtlety of a bull crashing through a glass door...
...quality of life for the new breeds. Producing a cow that gives three times as much milk as a normal Guernsey, he notes, could mean producing a cow that lives in acute discomfort. Says he: "We have the prospect of creating animals that may be in continual agony." Others fret that the release of genetically engineered animals, such as fatter mice or more aggressive game fish, might result in ecological disaster...