Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happen. The Whitewater scandal did not bring the President down. Fifteen U.S. Senators did not run for re-election. Colin Powell did not run for the presidency. America did not get involved in a larger war in Bosnia and did not intervene in Burundi, Liberia, Zaire or Sudan. No fuss arose about the illegal fund-raising practices of the Democrats. No fury erupted when it was revealed that Swiss bankers kept Nazi loot stolen from Holocaust victims...
...trembling" since he heard of the President's return, Mobutu brings no army with him. The outgunned Zairian forces have been consistently beaten and humiliated, and it seems unlikely that leadership alone can halt the rebel advance. What Mobutu's arrival is generating so far is a maximum of fuss. State-run television and radio Monday proclaimed it a "great event" and urged Zairians to "show solidarity" with Mobutu by lining the streets from the airport to Camp Tashatshi, a military encampment with a presidential residence in Kinshasa. There, Mobutu is to make a rare broadcast address. Anyone who comes...
Such findings speak far more tellingly about the racial climate inside Texaco than the distracting fuss that erupted last week over whether the N word was actually used by taped executives...
...result of this family asset, I sometimes get lazy and don't bother interviewing the man or woman in the street. If I want to know what Americans think, I ask my father. So, Dad, what do you make of all this fuss about campaign-spending abuses and Indonesian billionaires? "Ah, they both do that stuff," he says."It's the system." And what about the attacks on Clinton's character? "You know, I don't like to hear about that kind of thing...
...just a triumph of miniaturization. Kids really are different, which is what seven-year-old pilot Jessica Dubroff's death last April should have taught us. And the line dividing the kids from the grownups is at least as serious and consequential as that other life-cycle boundary we fuss so much about--the one separating a fetus from a human being...