Word: frets
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What's more maddening to national-test advocates is the defection of their supposed friends on the left. Liberal critics assert that the math test will stigmatize poor and minority students who don't perform well. They fret that schools will use national-exam results in determining who to promote to the next grade. And they even complain that the reading test discriminates against students who don't read English. Feelings run so strong in the House that virtually all members of the left-leaning black and Hispanic caucuses plan to vote against the tests this week. "If national testing...
...critics fret that the law may permit churches to discriminate in hiring based on religion. Inevitably, that question and others will generate litigation. "The answers will be fact-bound," says University of Southern California law professor Erwin Chemerinsky. "But there are things these programs may do that courts will...
Providing even less reason to fret over your financials is a plethora of positive data from the Fed, suggesting that with the economy holding its own, interest rates will likely be left untouched. In the absence of "irrational exuberance" warnings from Mr. Greenspan, you may want to hop on board and enjoy the ride...
Perils lurk for the male thriller writer giddy enough to cast a woman as the hero of a biff-bam adventure series. Just how hard can she bop the bad guys without coming off as an ape in drag? And how much can she fiddle with makeup or fret over runny panty hose before a reader of either sex decides that yeah, yeah, too much verisimilitude is unreal...
...potential is there for some form of nukenapping--grabbing weapons for ransom or nuclear blackmail--or sales to rogue states or terrorists, or unauthorized launches by renegade commanders. Some Russians even fret about a nuclear civil war. If a region in Siberia were to declare its independence, a retired senior officer in Moscow speculates, "the entire missile force in the area might cut itself off from the chain of command and control and get reprogrammed to be able to launch at will...