Word: phobically
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...culture of corruption, and an unfriendly economic environment in the rest of Asia, Zhu has been forced to reverse or put on hold all his key reform policies. Mounting reports of labor unrest around the country terrified his comrades in the leadership, whose fear of luan--chaos--approaches the phobic. "With no functioning social-welfare net," argues a Chinese economist, Zhu's reforms were "suicidal...
...help in the middle of the night. We read about the teenage drug dealer who tells us how he was confronted with the option of making $100 a week at Burger King--or $6,000 a week peddling heroin. There is the mother who is too phobic to sit at the table with her children to eat a meal because this was always where domestic violence began with her ex-husband. And woman after woman chronicles the hallmark of a good relationship in a similar manner to one Buffalo woman who muses, "I guess I got all the conveniences...
...this is the science museum). For all you budding pre-meds, the risks of high altitudes and the process of acclimatization are outlined as the climbers ascend the mountain. In addition, the audience gets a brief geology lesson and learns about satellite geography. But those who are science-phobic, fear not: this is science for the masses made fun, interesting and simply understandable...
...sophomore at [University of] Chicago is e-mail phobic," Nagy says. "We have a very good telephone relationship, but he doesn't e-mail me. I still have to sell him on how e-mail can be talk substitute and a talk supplement...
...monogamy. The interactions between the men and women, both believable and funny, show all the complexities of romantic relationships. A typical morning-after scene between Bobby and April has him begging her to stay with him. But when she finally agrees, we hear Robert's sleep-deprived and committment-phobic inner voice groaning...