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worrywart

someone who worries all the time. Don't be such a worrywart. I'm sorry I'm such a worrywart.

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It's your choice: listen to worrywarts or create the future you want.

Don't only listen to the voices of gloom

But for the garden-variety worrywart, the picture is far less gloomy.

Worry can be good: a moderate amount of anxiety can be a powerful tool for achieving goals

Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Findings of a new study showed that worrywarts, fidgety folk and the naturally nervy may have a real cause for concern: accelerated cancer.

Study: Anxiety Increases Cancer Severity in Mice

Third, the majority of your fellow Americans love the regulatory state, because they are worrywarts who think that all risk can and should betaken out of life, and because they are busybodies who want to tell others how to live.

Names, faces, and places of the new economy

Don't blame the leaders for appearing short-sighted and indecisive; the fault may lie with us, the public, for not listening to the worrywarts.

The public and its problems

Obsessive fretting causes physical and psychological consequences that negatively affect the worrywarts of the world.

The Worrywart's Companion: Twenty-One Ways to Soothe Yourself & Worry Smart

In a time when children, and even house hold pets, swallow Prozac, Reiss revives a neglected diagnosis for worrywarts, wallflowers, daydreamers, pessimists, and eccentrics alike: normal.

The Normal Personality: A New Way of Thinking About People

In blogging his horror, Sullivan joins a long line of worrywarts who have fretted about the cultural and political impact of portable music.

Why the iPod personalizes everything

To listen to the worrywarts, you'd think positive interest rates would set Japan's economy reeling back toward the dark days of the 1990s.

U.S. editorial excerpts -7-

Being portrayed as neurotic worrywarts is an understandable side effect of selling FUD (fear, uncertainty and death), as we have for a long time.

Hooray for hurricanes

Sure, some are probably worrywarts, reacting to new product concepts with more fear than reason.

Worrywarts don't rule; performance does

Iraq may not find its Abraham Lincoln, as the worrywarts say.

Asian editorial excerpts -2-

Consider the case of the flounder tomato, often cited by vegetarian worrywarts. Flounder produce a kind of natural antifreeze that allows them to thrive in arctic waters.

At issue with tissue: are transgenic plants containing animal genes suitable for vegetarians? (Articles)

His reply should reassure retail worrywarts: "Shopping seems to constantly go through cycles--even overlapping states--of ebb and flow.

One and Two: A project for Art forum: Rem Koolhaas and the Harvard design school project on the city

Worrywarts are self-absorbed, playing the same mental "audio tapes" over and over like Muzak.