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("You saved the town beauty from drowning and made yourself deaf in one ear so that you couldn't be a New York cop, and then she married some other guy--you have a right to be jealous!"
To be jealous of a person is to be open to another's influence, to have one's sense of self continuously challenged by another.
Yes--men are shorter-lived, more cerebrally lopsided, more violent, better at some spatial abilities, worse at verbal abilities, more competitive but more forgiving of their competitors, more sexually jealous, more socially obtuse, and more promiscuous (at least, they'd like to be).
HCFA's Vladeck has already entertained extending the program, noting that if jealous congressmen from other jurisdictions "think this is a good deal, they have the power to make it more available."
In 1745 Governor Clinton wrote to the Board of Trade, “That as they [the New York Assembly] are jealous of the power of the Crown, and are Levellers by principle, nothing but an independent Govr.