Word: worrier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pauley said that she has always been "a worrier," but that in the age dominated by AIDS, the drug crisis and renewed racial tension, she is even more concerned for the society she said her children will grow...
...Jersey around neighborhoods where mobsters lived. He had a sense of their behavior and values. "I knew how to act natural so no alarms would go off," he says. So natural, in fact, that as a Mob hanger-on, he got close to Mafia Soldier Lefty Ruggiero, a neurotic worrier, chronically short of cash, who became Pistone's mentor in check-cashing scams and drug and gambling deals. Pistone also "felt a kind of kinship" with Dominick ("Sonny Black") Napolitano, a killer who kept pigeons on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building and was to become the acting boss...
...longer the liability for the President that she sometimes was during his first two years in office. In fact, in the past two years she has probably become an outright political plus, winning friends and influencing people. She remains tightly wound, by her own description "a born worrier," but now she has a public and private sure-footedness that she once seemed unable to manage. "I have more self-confidence," she says. A longtime presidential aide agrees. "She has become more of a person in her own right," says the aide, "and no longer just Ronald Reagan's wife...
Deaver's apparent blandness and wry manner make him an inconspicuous figure. But he is demanding, a worrier, and associates watch his moods carefully. He tends to play favorites. "He falls in and out of love with people," says one friend. Deaver professes surprise that no one challenges his judgments at the big scheduling meetings he conducts. But no one wants to cross him. A graduate of San Jose State, he is envious of the Ivy League polish of types like Chief of Staff James Baker, whose skills he admires enormously. He is captivated by the trappings of power...
...have more career opportunities than my generation did, but the economic risks will also be greater. I worry about whether he will gain the skills needed to get ahead in the complex, competitive global economy in which he will grow up." Plainly, Alexander is a long-range thinker, or worrier. Brian is 19 months...