Word: phobias
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this person had an irrational phobia of something, what would...
...Neiman Marcus, is clearly the one to do it. Having worn every hat from merchandise manager to V.P. of handbags and designer accessories to senior V.P. of stores, she took the reins of the company's e-commerce business in 2000, when flat-screen fashion was designers' biggest phobia. She turned it into a half-billion-dollar branch of the business, with every name in the industry on board. And she has presided over the now 39 Neiman Marcus stores for the past five years, a period when unequaled media attention, including television programs like Sex and the City...
...country with a history of fierce political rivals coming together for their own survival, the idea of a union between Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto seems preposterous. After all, they hate each other with an undisguised passion. She has a phobia about military dictators--her politician father was executed by one--and has described General Musharraf as an incompetent ruler who indulges in "puerile brinkmanship." In his view, she and Nawaz Sharif, another former Prime Minister, epitomize the weak, deeply corrupt democracy he overthrew in a bloodless 1999 coup. Just the mention...
...more evolved of the two; he feels no threat from the queer agenda, nor much interest in it. It's Chuck who has problems even being considered gay. At their wedding, Larry is willing to exchange a perfunctory kiss; Chuck socks him. I now pronounce you Homo and Phobia...
Three University animal technical workers cited numerous incidents they considered to be racist acts, including an instance when a Latino cage-worker with high blood pressure and a phobia of snakes and reptiles was sent to work with those animals...