Word: frets
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...shut out of El Bulli and stuck in Madrid, don't fret. The city boasts plenty of innovative places. One of them is La Broche in the Miguel Angel hotel, whose executive chef, Sergi Arola, apprenticed with Adriŕ. Dining at La Broche is an immersion in formalism. The color scheme of the dining room is sci-fi white, from the rectangular tables to the window blinds. The wait staff is all business (as is most of the clientele). The food, accelerating in flavor and intensity through a meal, seems conjured in Adriŕ's lab: breaded fois custard cream with apricot...
...Some among your roommates might be interested in buying brand name towel racks, spending a small fortune on a Persian rug, or other furniture budget busters. Don’t fret. Here are a couple of strategies that will help,” offers the guide. The language recognizes a common problem faced by low-income students at Harvard: the shock of entering a community where affluence is the norm...
...President who loves to hit home runs and wants to be remembered for swinging for the fences is being forced to take base hits," says a former White House official. Since 1999 Bush and Rove have imagined engineering a decades-long G.O.P. majority in America. But Republicans fret these days about losing the House or Senate in next year's midterm elections. So if Rove does head out, he may leave behind a wounded President who faces the prospect of having to abandon some of the pair's Texas-size dreams...
...governments are ratcheting up trade with non-traditional partners like China, whose exploding appetite for raw materials has boosted its total trade with Latin America from $8 billion in 1999 to more than $30 billion this year. That includes increased oil imports from Venezuela, which has caused Washington to fret about a long-term shortfall in its own crude imports from one of its nearest and most reliable suppliers...
...Game has not yet begun, but Yale has already beat Harvard—at banning all drinking paraphernalia at the tailgate! Worried you won’t be able to get blackout? Don’t fret: here are some drinking games that won’t get you busted, but will likely get you blasted...