Word: phobias
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...become a serious concern in these nations, and greater stimulation would increase the danger. While the U.S. worries about a return of double-digit inflation (see box), prices are rising at an 11.7% pace in Japan and at a 6% rate in West Germany, where inflation is a national phobia. Symptomatically, West Germany's Social Democratic government recently announced a $2.3 billion spending program to combat rising unemployment, but coupled it with long-term austerity measures to limit the inflationary impact...
...have an immense phobia about Muzak. It all goes back to 1971 when I was stranded in the Albany, N.Y., airport for nine hours. At that time I was nearly driven mad by the insidious burblings that followed me around the airport. I tried frantically to escape them. I fled into the coffee shop. They followed me. I darted into the bar. They followed me there too. They even trailed me into the rest rooms. Since that time, whenever cheerful and inane melodies seep out of wall speakers, I look uneasily over my shoulder...
...scene is her beloved Cornwall again, but the matter, this time, is xeno phobia- slick anti-Americanism to be precise. It is the near future. Britain's entry into the Common Market has proved an economic disaster. In order to save the nation from bankruptcy, Her Majesty's government joins the U.S. in a partnership called USUK. The Union Jack is blended with the Star-Spangled Banner to form one flag. With the Queen as coruler, the President of the U.S. will govern from the White House and Buckingham Palace. Minor injury follows major insult. When gum-chewing...
...this election, the burning issue is not Ostpolitik but Stabilität. The big question is which party can best contribute to the continued stability of the German economy. The citizens of Limburg share the fear of inflation that is a national phobia throughout Germany...
Most of the phobias known to behavioral scientists are relatively rare afflictions. There are, for example, only a few victims of erythrophobia (the fear of blushing) and fewer yet of melissophobia (fear of bees) or panto-phobia (fear of everything). But Princeton University Philosopher Walter Kaufmann says that there is one age-old but hitherto unrecognized fear that is nearly universal. It is "decidophobia" -the morbid dread of making fateful decisions...