Word: fretfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saigon fell on April 30, 1975, but Vietnam is still with us. A politician's war record--or antiwar record--evokes scorn or approbation; the masterfully manipulative Forrest Gump makes adults weep; we fret over quagmires, and still we can hear the air torn by helicopter blades and see that canted, top-heavy map on the evening news and recall precisely our draft-lottery number or that of our brother or son. Some brothers and sons did not return; they are still with us as well...
...Japan has some good reasons not to fret too much over its $66 billion trade surplus with the U.S. and the strong yen that it produces. The currency makes foreign investments cheap and helps Japanese firms build factories around the world, especially in Asia. In America, Japanese automakers for the first time last year produced more cars and trucks than they exported from Japan. That turned around Japan's faltering share of the U.S. automotive market, from...
...none of this works, don't fret! If she chooses her men by how they smell and nothing else, the girl ain't worth...
...worry. In the Gingrich camp, optimism runs rampant. Alvin Toffler and a few other seers prepared a "Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age" for the Progress and Freedom Foundation, which supports Gingrich. The authors dismiss in Tofflerian language those who fret about social balkanization in cyberspace as "Second Wave ideologues" (that is, Industrial Revolution dinosaurs, not clued in to the "Third Wave," the knowledge revolution). "Rather than being a centrifugal force helping to tear society apart, cyberspace can be one of the main forms of glue holding together an increasingly free and diverse society." The key to a "secure...
...fret that you're missing out on all the fun. The most scientific sex survey ever says it just isn't true that typical Americans -- especially singles -- are out having wild erotic adventures. Most of us are monogamous, married couples have the best and most frequent sex, and adultery is relatively uncommon...