Word: fusses
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...Most of the fuss is coming from individuals who feel that friends of this student are being portrayed unfavorably in the play." Stone said, "This is not true. The characters in the play are products of my own imagination...
...past two years, the Brazilians have paid little mind to fishermen from Brittany who dropped their nets near by and returned home with holds filled with the live, spiny lobsters. Occasionally the Brazilian navy stopped a trawler for venturing too near shore, but there was little fuss about it. Then two months ago, local lobstermen woke up to the fact that the French were nipping quite a chunk out of their $3,000,000 annual export business. Hair-triggered Brazilian jingoists joined in the protest...
...Fuss. Last week Kodak paid public reverence to all three. In Manhattan, President William Scott Vaughn, 60, a mathematician and onetime Rhodes scholar, announced that "George Eastman's idea was to 'make a camera as easy to use as the pencil'-and picture taking now becomes that easy." What makes it so, in Vaughn's view, is the latest developments from Kodak's researchers: new Kodak still-film cartridges that pop in and out like blades in a razor, and four new models of "Instamatic" cameras (prices: $16 to $110) that use the film...
...pays careful attention to local custom. In Africa it uses mobile vans for its white customers in off-track communities, but has learned not to use them for Africans; they get suspicious when a truck drives off with their hard-earned shillings, and are apt to raise quite a fuss. For Africans, Barclays sets up offices wherever it can, even if they are only one-room huts. Barclays has learned the necessity of accepting the smallest deposit (one chief arrived with an entire tribal retinue to deposit $1.40) and of honoring some unusual checks, including one written on a hard...
...grumbles Dr. Carter, "and the shame of it all is that you have to order a lot of unnecessary tests." Author Heinz's prescription for the ideal patient is one who pays his bills promptly, has no truck with insurance companies or lawyers, and does not make a fuss on being told he has cancer...