Word: frets
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Other countries in the region have reservations of their own. They fret that FARC, ELN and the paramilitaries will begin looking for safe havens outside Colombia. Two weekends ago, at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, the Presidents of the nations surrounding Colombia told President Bush that they are worried Plan Colombia will simply push drugs and violence into their yards. In response, the Bush Administration has been fine-tuning a wider Andes plan, which would expand U.S. operations into all five countries. The plan would be more than double the size of Plan Colombia and would represent...
...ballroom, of course--whatever age a person is. It provides good cardiovascular exercise and helps develop muscle tone, grace, poise and balance. It's affordable and can be learned in a relatively short time. But its popularity among the young is particularly welcomed by parents who, with some reason, fret about the safety of their children in the harsh and sometimes violent world in which so many grow up today. "What we are really teaching the students is respect, teamwork and transferable skills," says Dulaine. "Our students learn that the most important thing is to be able to work with...
...After the Cold War, it was natural for the centrifugal forces always present in the alliance to grow. Paul Kennedy, the Yale historian who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, advises those who fret about this to relax; he thinks the bonds can afford to stretch a little now that the Soviet Union has fallen, because we can be confident they would snap back in the face of a real threat. But Michael Howard, former British Home Secretary, has just started a new group, Atlantic Partnership, precisely because he fears the alliance may suffer permanent damage from...
...friends in Princeton, N.J., have once again led the way in student aid, ensuring that no student has to fret about dragging a family into financial hardship by attending a costly undergraduate institution. As Harvard makes the news for amassing a mammoth endowment, Princeton makes the news for putting its endowment to good use. Harvard should be ashamed for its lackluster record on financial aid and should take steps to ease the burden of undergraduate tuition, room and board...
Behind most of the bad things we do to our bodies as adults--eat too much, drink too much, fret too much, veg out too much--are two contradictory ideas we carry with us from childhood. On the one hand, we assume that we are indestructible. And on the other, we think that any damage we inflict on our delicate biological systems can be undone later, when we finally decide to clean...