The daily news is filled with alarums and excursions about the trade deficit, the budget deficit, corporate profits, malfeasance in high places and worries about pensions. All are real problems, to be sure, but if we take a step back, we see something amazing: society has been made so much more open than my father … could have dreamed only 47 years ago. (Ben Stein, “Equality of Opportunity—The Water We Swim In,” The New York Times, 1/30/2005.)
This phrase can also be a synonym for din, noise, racket, hullabaloo, ado, hoopla, tumult or commotion.
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