Word: fretfulness
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...sometimes lead reasonably happy lives. This insight hardly merits the implied crisis of the big storm of her title. Colwin draws a parallel between a sudden thunder-storm in the country which knocks physical things over, and marriage, pregnancy and parenthood, which knock abstract things over. Don't fret, she advises, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, and? The book does not empower the reader to face the world; it does not inspire the reader to have faith in the future; it does not capture the reader's imagination. Colwin's book barely engages the reader...
President Clinton is worrying his aides more than ever with his verbose and minutiae-encrusted public statements. Advisers fret that in trying to appear smart, especially on matters of foreign policy, Clinton looks mired in niggling particulars. During one long-winded presidential response at a press conference, George Stephanopoulos grabbed Mack McLarty's wrist to point at his watch. "The upside is that Clinton explains everything, but the downside is that he gets too detailed," says a senior official...
...task. They have a variety of reasons for not wanting to legitimize a strong central government: many of them are jealous of their natural resources, like oil, gold and diamonds, and want to maintain control of them and share in the profits from sales. And these localities fret that they pay ever higher taxes to Moscow and receive fewer services in return. Some provincial Russians are simply anti-Moscow or anti-Yeltsin...
...between imperial China and today's San Francisco. Four immigrant ladies, who meet for mah-jongg and call themselves the Joy Luck Club, have four American- born girls, now in their 30s. While the daughters follow the quiet ambition fed them at birth -- to be unostentatiously extraordinary -- the mothers fret and fuss. You're not a good enough pianist; you're too proud about your gift for playing chess. "I'd rather get rectal cancer" than have you marry that Caucasian. And look at the top bedroom in this pricey home he built for you: "A million dollars...
Together, AT&T and McCaw will give rivals plenty of reason to fret. They are expected to strengthen each other's hold on their respective markets. By linking its own computerized telephone grid with McCaw's advanced cellular network, AT&T is expected to develop a broad menu of customized services. It could, for instance, bundle telephone handsets, long-distance and cellular service in a single package. With AT&T, Craig McCaw moves one step closer to realizing his biggest dream: building the first nationwide cellular-telephone network...