Word: fretted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bossing. Carter apparently meant what he said about having a strong No. 2 man. He also needs Mondale as a link to the liberals in the Democratic Party who fret about the President's aversion to new spending programs. Mondale, moreover, enjoys the unqualified support of Hamilton Jordan, Carter's top aide, who originally backed him for the vice presidency. "In the past," says Jordan, "a President's staff has been able to boss the Vice President around. No one would dream of doing that with Mondale. I consider him my boss, like I consider Carter...
...route) and Merv Griffin (who opens the football game by delivering the national anthem as if it were a carton of half-and-half). Not even all this is enough. Besides worrying about who is going to get shot, and when, we must fret over who will win the big game between L.A. and Baltimore...
...Dyer's advice: Don't look for social approval. "No matter what you do, half the people you know will disagree with it anyway." Try not to deny yourself anything in life. "Outlaw self-denial unless it is absolutely necessary - and it rarely is." Don't fret that you are doing nothing important in life. "Nothing is more important than anything else. The child collecting seashells is not doing something more right or wrong than the president of General Motors making a corporate decision...
...competition into the U.S. and to provide a "visual feed" to Latin America, ABC paid the Olympic organizing committee (COJO) $25 million. To produce a U.S.-oriented version of the Games-through its own staff and technical facilities-will cost ABC another $10 million. But don't fret for ABC's exchequer; at $72,000 a minute, sponsors-the three biggest are Sears, Schlitz and Chevrolet-should pay the total $35 million bill. Says ABC Sports Spokesman Irving Brodsky: "We'll break even. The Olympics don't make money, but they contribute a great deal-immeasurably...
...more than $1 million on the tennis tour (the others: Arthur Ashe, Rod Lover and Rose-wall). "I never count how much I make, only how much I spend," commented Nastase, who keeps a fancy flat and a Lancia and a Bentley in Brussels. Do his Communist countrymen ever fret over his capitalistic success? Says he: "Everyone is jealous if you have a lot of money...