Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association agreed: "The traditional bipartisanship of the NGA is breaking down," said Doug Richardson of the DGA. On the Republican side, though, a spokesman for Tommy Thompson, Republican of Wisconsin and vice chair of the NGA, says the Democrats are just plain jealous. "It's just the way that the game is right now," Kevin Keane told TIME Daily. "The Republicans are in charge...
That stature gap helps explain why both parties are playing a new Washington game called "Whose Wrecking Ball Is Bigger?" After Republican Newt Gingrich announced his plan to sell one of five House office buildings, jealous Clinton aides one-upped the Republican leader with a plan to padlock an entire federal agency. Hearing of this, Republican leaders late last Friday began work on a new budget plan to close four agencies: HUD, Energy, Education and Commerce. The bidding war exasperated one official. "Now we're in a situation," he said, "where if we don't abolish three agencies, we look...
...just as troubled au pairs are recycled, so are problem families. The McManamys provided temporary shelter to two AuPairCare hires, both in flight from the same couple. The first au pair complained of a domineering husband and a jealous wife. Her successor charged that the husband had made sexual advances and the wife had refused to speak to her. Becky, who helped the first go home and the second find a better job, says the agency failed to assist in either case. More common, an agency will attribute the problem to "incompatibility," and try to rematch both sides...
...play's climax, Jabe, in a jealous rage, tries to kill Val and inadvertently shoots his wife. Making what Flannery O'Connor calls "a good case for distortion," the scene risks appearing ridiculously melodramatic to modern viewers...
...context of a woman who is severely depressed and may also be suicidal." Indeed, that seems to be the case with Smith. Other doctors are inclined to cite psychosis or postpartum depression. Robert Hazelwood, a former FBI behavioral scientist, relates the case of a woman who became jealous of the attention her husband showered on their infant. She told her husband she was cooking a roast for dinner. When he raised the cover, she said, "You love her so much, here...