Word: fussed
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U.A.E. The United Arab Emirates is concerned that instability in the gulf could slow its rapid economic development. But if war comes, the U.A.E., which already extends military-basing privileges to the U.S. and Britain, is not likely to make a fuss...
...Then there was Reagan's attempt, once he reached the White House in 1981, to reverse a long-standing policy of denying tax-exempt status to private schools that practice racial discrimination and grant an exemption to Bob Jones University. Lott's conservative critics, quite rightly, made a big fuss about his filing of a brief arguing that BJU should get the exemption despite its racist ban on interracial dating. But true to their pattern of white-washing Reagan's record on race, not one of Lott's conservative critics said a mumblin' word about the Gipper's deep personal...
...funny thing," says Simon Tolkien, grandson of J.R.R. and author of the forthcoming novel Final Witness, "was that he was most famous on your side of the Atlantic. I think the English establishment was slightly suspicious of him." In fact, Tolkien found all the fuss distasteful. "Many young Americans are involved in the stories in a way that I'm not," he once remarked about his fans--or as he called them, "my deplorable cultus." He wondered what Americans saw in his long, deeply Anglophilic and, let's be frank, overwritten epic. But the Rings had struck a chord...
...lamp with a candle, but the wicks were soaked in too much oil and he stood awkwardly as they refused to catch fire. Then, the speaker system failed during the broadcast of a mobile phone call he made to the state's Chief Minister. Instead of making a fuss, Mittal told his Bombay manager: "Things happen." Asked about the incident months later, he explained simply that "I concentrate on things that have a large impact...
...that we make so much fuss about the influence of money in politics and so little about an even older form of privilege: blood--or marriage. Two years ago, Jon Corzine of New Jersey spent $60 million of his own money to win a Senate seat. Others have tried to do it on $40 million or less and failed. Clearly, if your goal is to be a Senator, being the son of a Senator is equivalent to having something like $50 million. Like money, blood may not be enough to guarantee victory, but it's better than money in improving...