Word: fretfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even if the Army is never fast and light, the U.S. military will still possess an unmatchable tactical dominance over its opponents. That worries some Pentagon thinkers. In the next conflict, they fret, a really smart foe won't fight the U.S. in the skies or on the ground--places where victory is unlikely. Instead, it will be smart and strike far away from the war zone--in the heart of a major U.S. city, perhaps--with chemical or biological weapons. Even the slickest Stealth bomber couldn't stop that...
...fascination at the moment than the young, single career woman yearning to a Joni Mitchell ballad in her mind? She has certainly claimed her place on television, and soon Barnes and Noble will need to create extra room for her, perhaps with a books-about-thirtyish-media- women-who-fret-and-drink-Scotch-in-New-York-or-California section. In the year since Helen Fielding's best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary, a novel focused on a cocktails-and-cellulite-obsessed London editor, writers have continued to weigh in on how single women do, and should, comport themselves...
NEVER-ENDING STORY Feel as if life lacks drama now that Monica's off on her book tour? Fret not. Monica theatrical events abound. The Starr grand jury testimony has been turned into a play, The Trials of Monica Lewinsky, most recently performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Texas composer Stephen Hilton's Under Oath: A Political Cantata took its libretto from the same source, and is available on CD. And you can still catch Starr Struck, at left, a musical in L.A. Susan McDougal has seen it twice...
Safety advocates also fret that corporate responsibility has stalled. SUV critics have long contended that vehicles like the Excursion and Suburban contribute to more deadly accidents because they are so much larger than, say, a Dodge Neon...
...Unplugged Album." These minutes were a showcase for the best of B‚la's unique talents. When Bela starts on the banjo, you might think at first that he is tuning his banjo. That is until you realize that he is actually playing the banjo not by fretting, but by twisting the tuners on the head of the instrument. B‚la even went as far as to fret a note with his nose. He brought his brand blues to new realms, showing not only new territories where music could go, but also where it could come...