Word: gnawing
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...face it, as grownups, it's our job to worry. And for those of us attempting to raise children at the close of this century, there's no shortage of anxieties to gnaw at the nerves and churn the gut. How, we wonder, can our children flourish and stay on course with only a few hours a day of parental devotion? How can kids focus on schoolwork when tempted by a luscious smorgasbord of multimedia junk? Hmm, would Ritalin help? Is Austin Powers too racy for a nine-year-old? How about tube tops and platform shoes? Looming larger...
Bundy's book is a valuable one, a solid chronicle from the vantage of the old foreign policy establishment. But it could have been so much more powerful and poignant if he'd delved deeper into the murky questions about Vietnam that continue to gnaw at many of us, presumably including Bundy...
...gnaw away at Boston for a couple of years, and then we'll rule it," he says...
...have enough money invested in things that will be sold for a capital gain. That's the bone that was thrown to the wealthy--a lower capital-gains tax rate. It's a valuable bone, for sure. The catch is that you have to be invested in order to gnaw on it. The superwealthy will do fine buying and selling things. But many wage slaves just don't have the cash...
...final frontier. It is simply the right to seek that office and then, possibly, to fail in that attempt, which stands out as the holy grail in the immigrant's quest for equal status. Until the time when that right is granted, the antiquarian presidential qualification will continue to gnaw and prod at the effort to end immigrants' second-class-citizen status...