Word: frets
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...over his national missile defense (NMD) program and punted the issue to his successor, arguing that missile-busting technology was still unproved. While Powell lately has signaled lukewarm support for missile defense, Bush?s Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is one of nmd?s biggest cheerleaders. Europe?s leaders fret that the U.S. plans will vitiate arms-control regimes and encourage Russia and China to build up their arsenals...
...person who has worked at home for five years, I didn't need a study to tell me the two spheres are on a collision course. But as I fret over whether my frenzied, fragmented existence truly represents progress, I see that my kids plainly prefer our blended life to the days when I went to an office for 10 hours at a stretch. What I notice: pink frosting crusted under my fingernails as I type. What they notice: the cupcakes I delivered to school...
Environmentalists, for their part, fret that Clinton wasted too much time before addressing some of the more serious problems--possibly leaving them in the hands of a Bush presidency. "There is a tremendous amount of environmental damage the next Administration could do," says Jim Angell, staff attorney for Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, who is fighting a challenge in federal court to the designation of five national-monument sites in the West...
...proving more lethal against the guerrillas than the Colombian army for one simple reason: Castano's men don't fret too much over human rights. "We copy the methods of our enemy," says Castano grimly. A government ombudsman says the AUC has massacred more than 794 people this year, mostly small farmers. Castano insists that nearly all were guerrilla spies...
...Washington top national security leaders, both in the White House and at the Central Intelligence Agency, fret continuously about such things. There is genuine fear that the U.S. will be caught off guard by a dangerous microbe. After all, it's happened before; many times, most notably with HIV and hepatitis C. There is a tendency in such circles to seek high-tech solutions in the form of microbe sensors and automated early-warning systems...