Word: phobias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...height of the apple panic that the Chilean fruit phobia began. The first phone call to the U.S. embassy in Santiago was followed by a more serious one on March 9. The caller said he had read in a Santiago paper that his threat was being treated as a hoax. Be warned, he said, it was no hoax. Fifty FDA inspectors were dispatched to the Almeria Star as it docked in Philadelphia. They set up tables along the pier and began examining 1,200 cases of grapes for softness, discoloration and the telltale welds caused by punctures. By Sunday...
While bartered-convention phobia did not catch on among Illinois voters, it strikes fear in the heart of Democratic Party Pooh-Bahs, who prefer a little cigar smoke swirling around the back rooms before the convention to a prime- time brawl on national television. To that end, Party Chairman Paul Kirk announced that he would seek a meeting with all the candidates after the New Jersey and California primaries on June 7 to urge consensus support behind an "inevitable nominee," a euphemism for a candidate who is not strong enough to be a full-fledged front runner but could...
...didn't want to find myself left behind or outdated or out of breath--or breadth. I didn't want to become a relic of the past. Now I don't have computer phobia. I even take science courses. And I passed the computer part of the QRR on my first try; it's now a part of my past...
...disease, the military has embarked on a policy of excluding all carriers from military service. This policy is not only unecessary and unsupported by clinical evidence about AIDS, but also indicative of the attitude of intolerance and misunderstanding that has surrounded the spread of the disease. It is a phobia particularly unacceptable at an institution devoted to enlightenment and tolerance...
...brushes under the rug: how does he know that the "pre-publication clause" is only "designed to ensure that no classified material is revealed?" Professor Joseph Nye recently reported (Boston Globe, Nov. 24, 1985) that the scope of the clause can be much broader. (Moreover, given Professor Herf's phobia of unopen sources, how come he doesn't object to the mere use of classified materials?) Would Professor Herf think it is all right, say, for a scholar to give to the family of a deceased public official or writer the right to censor a biography it has helped fund...