Word: fretfulness
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...April is nail-biting time for high school seniors as they stand vigil over their mailboxes, looking for letters of acceptance from colleges. The weeks that follow, on the other hand, are nail-biting times for the colleges, as they fret over how many students will accept their acceptances, fill their dormitories and keep their budgets in the black...
Just now, Bonoff is winding down from all those concert gigs, puttering around her Woodland Hills house, watering plants and trying not to fret...
...code), then sold stock at $1 a share to start Control Data in Minneapolis in 1957. Last year the company had sales of $2.3 billion, and its profits rose by 42%. But Chairman Norris at 66 is doing much more than adding to his millions. While other people merely fret and fuss about hard-core unemployment, this plain-talking engineer is taking long risks to create jobs for people who had felt left behind and shut out by the system...
Once they exceed a pachydermous 250,000 tons-about four times the size of the Queen Elizabeth 2, for example -oceangoing oil carriers are classified as supertankers. Like elephants, they can also be superterrors. Purists dislike their wallowing bulk. Mariners fret about a 1,200-ft. ship that may require half a harbor to slow down, needs miles of room for a minor change in course and in extremis could wreak disaster. Sure enough, disaster occurred last week in waters off South Africa's Cape St. Francis...
After more than two years of recovery from the nation's worst postwar recession, lines at unemployment offices remain distressingly long, jobless youths cluster aimlessly on ghetto street corners, and politicians and economists continue to fret about the need to put more Americans to work. For Jimmy Carter, who campaigned on a platform dedicated to slashing unemployment, the persistently high rate of joblessness has become a critical challenge. Like his recent predecessors, Carter has yet to find the answer-if indeed one exists-for substantially reducing unemployment without setting off a new burst of devastating inflation...