Word: fretted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most car owners fret about how to coax another year out of the heap in the driveway, but there are still customers aplenty for the expensive, high-precision toys known in the automotive trade as exotic cars. Most of the buyers are men in their early 40s who are lured by names like Aston Martin, Maserati, Ferrari and Lamborghini that whisper freedom and promise sybaritic luxury. Oil-rich Arabs are big buyers: a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family this year paid $114,000 for two Lamborghini Countach-Ss lovingly built in Bologna. Sheiks and wealthy Japanese are queuing...
Aron does not fret over the specifics of the East-West strategic arms controversy. What he most fears is a loss of nerve among the Western democracies, resulting from a tenacious feeling of inferiority to the Soviet system. Many American analysts would disagree, believing that the U.S. has become complacent because of its sense of military superiority to the U.S.S.R. But Aron maintains that Westerners sometimes feel that the Soviet leaders "possess an infernal machine capable of blowing capitalism sky-high or else some virtually infallible instrument for guiding their strategy." This crisis of confidence has been accelerated in Europe...
American officials fret that bitterness over the contracts may handicap the small progress made by Washington in improving ties with the regime. The men close to Khomeini could not care less. One suspicion is that the Ayatullah is willing to single out U.S. firms for harsh treatment, thus hoping to trigger a total rupture in American-Iranian relations...
Unless, of course, the Government studies provide assurance that there is really nothing to fret about...
...network did not have enough to fret about, NBC has been trying since November to clear up a scandal that had been winked at for years, according to some NBC insiders. Under investigation are expense-account fraud and the embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of dollars by some NBC unit managers, who handle logistics for news, sports, and entertainment crews on location. So far 18 of the 55 unit managers, including their autocratic supervisor, Vice President Stephen Weston, have lost their jobs, and one has pleaded guilty to criminal charges...