Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is my fifth year teaching this course and I never really get used to it," Eric J. Chaisson, assistant professor of Astronomy, said yesterday of Astronomy 8. "I don't think you ever get used to video tape lights on you all the time. I get as nervous as hell," he added...
...cover the arrival. Over at gate seven they're giving out United Air Lines boarding tickets for standing room on the press platform. At gate eight they're checking in the people who will travel with the papal party on the week-long trip. A small, balding and very nervous man has been handed the microphone--his voice is a mix of officious timidity. He's losing his audience. Content to find their own information, the crowd drifts away. The reporters gather around the monseigneur and the bureaucrat who are holding the seats for Pool Bus one. There...
...Nervous that years of underfunding by corporate managers and abuse of pension funds by some union bosses may have left millions of workers helpless, Congress in 1974 passed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which set up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to assure the payment of vested pensions. The aim was to prevent situations like the one that arose in 1964 when Studebaker stopped production and workers were left with little or no benefits. Now the pension protector is itself troubled. Twice the Pension Corporation has asked Congress to postpone putting into effect new provisions on multiemployer pension funds...
...mine." Physicians in turn often seem oblivious to the dangers of the drugs. When confronted with a patient who is mentally-rather than physically-distressed, they reach for the prescription pad. Says Pursch: "If a woman walks into her doctor's office and says, 'I'm nervous, my husband drinks too much,' the doctor will automatically give her a tranquilizer." But patients must also bear some blame.They often demand medication as proof that the physician is doing his job. Result:more than 44 million prescriptions were filled last year for Valium alone...
...North House resident was nervous, it didn't show, and after the game coach Joe Restic described his performance as "super...