Word: frightfully
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...Psycho. In Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge, a girl steps into the shower and starts washing her hair. As she rubs in the shampoo, she reaches to the back of her head and feels ... a third hand! It's clammy, it's dead and, when she whirls around in fright, it's gone...
...tiny Sweden. By ceding control of monetary policy to the E.C.B., he fears, it will be hard for Sweden to use the fiscal tools of government spending to correct the problem. But such abstractions are not foremost in voters' minds. The real opposition to the euro is political. The fright scenario is: the European Union will eventually adopt measures to harmonize taxes, which will mean a cutback in high-tax countries like Sweden. The government will respond by cutting the budget, which will translate into slashing public-sector jobs like teachers and nurses. These jobs are held mostly by women...
...can’t exactly relate to kitchen-panic, however, because she started cooking in restaurants while still in high school. This personal history is a disclaimer of sorts—she doesn’t exactly feel the pain of novice stove-fright, but she has some good advice nonetheless. First, she recommends a cookbook called Help! My Apartment Has A Kitchen. Other tips from Katzen’s kitchen to yours...
...Lithgow got over his stage fright to put forward ideas to change the way that Harvard recognizes the arts...
...held liable in a civil court until they are penalized by a criminal court." That should change soon, as lawmakers catch up to international standards. Meanwhile, if this sentence survives appeal, many titans of Germany's now-defunct Neuer Markt have a new reason for stage fright. The Bottom Line Mr. Brown is not really the rather dour person he tries to present to us, but rather a romantic character BRIDGET ROSEWELL, economist for the Greater London Authority, on the British Chancellor's highly optimistic growth forecasts