Word: shudderfully
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Wild optimism is youth's prerogative, but older women shudder slightly at the giddy expectations of today's high school and college students. At times their hope borders on hubris, with its assumption that the secrets that eluded their predecessors will be revealed to them. "In the 1950s women were family oriented," says Sheryl Hatch, 20, a broadcasting major at the American University in Washington. "In the '70s they were career oriented. In the '90s we want balance. I think I can do both...
...Instead of concentrating its ire on Iraq, the U.S. joined in a United Nations condemnation of Israel, intensifying fears that the gulf crisis may ultimately be linked to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. All the talk of a peace deal in Kuwait sent another shudder through Shamir's government, leading many members to conclude that they may not get to see Baghdad burn after all. To make matters worse, Israeli officials had to watch as the U.S. Senate voted last week to cancel Egypt's $6.7 billion military debt, marking the first time that Egypt...
...France is fretting about the possibility of a Europe dominated by Germany. "What worries the French," says Gerald Long, former managing director of Reuters, "is the success of their own policy of locking Germany firmly into the European Community." It is not admitted publicly in Paris, but French officials shudder at the numbers: unified Germany's gross national product is $1.1 trillion, France's $762 billion. Almost 70% -- or $62 billion -- of the Federal Republic's trade surplus of $90 billion is with members of the E.C., an imbalance that is likely to increase...
...first, it sounded like a major marketing disaster in the making. Last December, only three months after the highly touted Lexus LS400 luxury sedan had been introduced in the U.S., Toyota announced the recall of all 8,000 cars it had sold at that point. The news sent a shudder through Lexus' spanking new North American dealership network. "My first reaction was, 'Oh, my God, here comes trouble," ' says Ken Meade, owner of Lexus of Lakeside in suburban Detroit...
...have a network of solicitous relatives and faithful friends. They have a strong marriage, happy kids, low expectations and high hopes. They have plenty of work ethic. What they do not have is enough money to live as they would like. It is these families whose entire household budgets shudder when the price of gasoline rises by a dime a gallon, whose sons and daughters join the Army to pay for their schooling, whose jobs are most vulnerable when the economy crawls toward recession. Savings and security are unaffordable luxuries; so are adequate health care, sufficient heat in the winter...