Word: angst
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...Manhattan's Bankers Trust and Manufacturer's Hanover Trust an additional $1.5 billion. Outwardly, many of Texaco's creditors and lenders are serene about the situation. But at one major Manhattan bank with several hundred million dollars' worth of Texaco corporate notes on deposit, a senior executive admits to "angst and anxiety" over the bankruptcy filing. Venezuela's state-owned oil company has hinted that it may shut off shipments of crude to Texaco; the Venezuelans have been discussing the matter with Texaco Chief Executive James Kinnear...
...That moniker's an oxymoron, by the way. Dostoevsky was never "cool"; his passion propelled him. But it's precisely Percy's understated anger that makes his prose, at its very best, bristle. There's a quiet, marvelous moment at the end of The Thanatos Syndrome where the angst of our condition comes pouring through...
Gross should have spent less time worrying about shock value and more time getting performances that are expressive enough to sustain the play's angst and tension for nearly three hours. In that length of time, none of the women can find any way to express nervousness other than clutching at their skirts, or any way to express happiness other than pirouetting...
...Peter Angst, North House. For most wash-ups, life is a pathetic waste of time heaped upon a worthless individual. Not for Peter Angst, however, who believes that "true excellence can be sought even in failure." Last semester Angst performed what fans have called his greatest feat: staying up all night to write a two-page paper that was so late it could not possibly get credit anyway, than deciding the paper wasn't good enough at 5 a.m., throwing it out, and then sleeping through the hourly exams he had that day--all seven of them...
...That was a bad day," cringes Angst. "And to top it off, my roommate stole my girlfriend and then turned gay." What does Angst plan for the future? "I'm planning to take five high-level math courses, even though I failed the QRR. And Japanese--but I guess that all depends on whether I flunk out or not first...