Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organizers, said, "We wanted some discomfort, but not that much." After the show, White House press secretary Michael McCurry called C-SPAN to ask that it not re-air the event. In a press release C-SPAN countered that the public had a right to see "what all this fuss is about." abc's Cokie Roberts, an Imus regular, said, "He always separates his raunchiness from the political part of his show. I thought he would have sense enough to do the same here. Now none of us can go on his show again...
...really excited about my rooming assignment next year," Beck says. "I heard the community [there] is very dynamic. I don't see what the fuss is all about being Quadded...
What all this fuss betrays is a terrible fear on the part of those who would regulate an increasingly intangible entity. There is nothing stopping any one of us from cutting and pasting a few thousand e-mail addresses into our e-mail programs and sending messages off. No one has the resources to monitor potential violations of mass e-mailings. There is much legal ambiguity in FAS policy, especially in what "indiscriminately" means (after all, the Opportunes' message was not 'indiscriminate' so far as I can tell: it was targeted at a very specific audience of potential concert-goers...
...morning, and even at noon in the rain and snow, but it's really not cause for a school-wide revolt, or even the tears and tension you might be feeling now. We are not writing this out of bitterness or spite; we just feel that all the fuss is really making mountains out of molehills. It'll all work out fine; don't try to beat the system, just save your judgements on randomization and on the house you end up in until after you've actually tried it. --Margery I. Miller '96 Ellen L. Frump...
What do people think they're getting, or escaping, in the dream machines that some owners don't realize are, in fact, trucks? A good bet is that they are scampering away from the honk and fuss and double parking of the world that cars created. TV and magazine ads invariably show pickups and sports utility vehicles parked on a mountain spire or riverside gravel bar, with no pavement or other traffic in sight. Sure. Whether they can get you there in actuality is not important. Even if they are filling-looseners that drive like trucks on washboarded gravel roads...