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Word: fussing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everybody is a little worried that after all this fuss there will be little that is different," said Davis earlier this month...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Students Lose Choice, Voice | 2/25/1989 | See Source »

...days after Christmas, when the wrecking crews were called in to tear down the Gulf station, students were on vacation, the City Councilors were on holiday, and many city residents were away visiting family. In short, no one was around to put up a fuss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reassess Priorities | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

...York Knickerbockers? Nice dream, if you're a New Yorker; nightmare, if a Chicagoan. Is he retiring and, like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, making his farewell appearances? Maybe he'll hang up the Air Jordans in a decade or two, but certainly not now. So what's all the fuss about? Simply that this is the first time during the 1988-89 season that the world's most exciting basketball player is visiting New York. A JORDAN FOR PRESIDENT sign even appears in the stands, a semiserious calling to a higher order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Leapin' Lizards! Michael Jordan Can't Actually Fly | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...estimates that her misery totted up to $50,000. Sprees can be an antidote to depression, loneliness and boredom. A major attraction is that salespeople are deferential and attentive. "They say, 'May I help you?' " notes Linda Barbanel, a psychotherapist in New York. "They ooh and ah and fuss. You become the star in your own production." At heart, though, shopaholics are plagued by a lack of self-esteem. Explains Carole Lieberman, a Beverly Hills psychiatrist: "People shop to make up for what they don't have on the inside. They're trying to fill up because they feel empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: 365 Shopping Days till Christmas | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...just be diplomats having "full and frank discussions" during this week's demi-summit. Like a monk touring Las Vegas to understand what the fuss over sin is about, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev will travel to the mountaintop of conspicuous consumption and wretched excess: Trump Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Superpower to Another | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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