Word: fretted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delors, the Socialist government experimented with wage and price controls, cut spending and instituted an ambitious "industrial restructuring" that could over the next four years lead to the layoff of 50,000 workers in unprofitable industries like steel and coal mining. Over the longer run, Mitterrand's aides fret, the government will be forced to sustain its belt tightening until the parliamentary elections scheduled for mid-1986, when the Socialists may pay dearly at the polls for what critics have dubbed "Thatcherism à la gourmandise...
...Have fun," she said over and over. When Armstrong laughed, the Balkans had to grin. And so did Christin Cooper, who lost the race-rather, finished second. Only momentarily did Cooper fret, "Maybe I'm not meant to win." Then she had the nicest line both of and on the Games: "You could take all the joy out of life by always wanting something to be better...
...moment the growl is gone: the Rocky Mountain states are having a respite from the terrible extremes of cold and snow. But with their day-to-day challenges of survival eased, people now have time to fret-about wildlife and water. From Denver to Boise, Idaho, herds of antelope, deer and elk are wandering out of the deep back-country snow dazed and starving. The snowfall, three or four times as great as normal, makes Rockies residents look toward the spring thaw with apprehension. Says California Meteorologist Jerome Namais: "This is potentially a very dangerous situation." All over the region...
...most confining of assignments. Reporters frequently join the candidate at dawn and may touch down in three or four states before hitting the next hotel bed at midnight. Traveling journalists, like other clients of arranged tours, tend to rehash the details of the day's events, or fret about mediocre food, lack of sleep or insufficient time to do laundry. On one demanding day, the reporters with Glenn set out at 7 a.m. and were given no opportunity to eat until 10 p.m. Recalls the Boston Globe's Walter Robinson: "By then, we were getting abusive with...
...resources being spent on redesign and business promotion are diverted from more substantial news coverage. Fanning has also offended some veterans by diminishing the roles of elderly Monitor stars, including Godfrey Sperling Jr., 68, who was shifted from Washington bureau chief to columnist. More fundamental, some staff members fret that the paper's highbrow tone may be lowered. In the cultural section, for example, Fanning plans to give added space and emphasis to leisure and recreation...