Word: anxiously
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...normalizing relations with North Korea and ending the impoverished communist state's missile program in exchange for economic assistance. But President Kim found the Bush administration skeptical of the Clinton approach - and by implication, of South Korea's own efforts at reconciliation. In particular, the Bush team was anxious to reopen negotiations over the 1994 agreement between North Korea and Japan, South Korea and the U.S. to provide energy assistance in exchange for the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear program - an option President Kim warned would not be accepted by the North Koreans. But President Bush stated outright that...
...near monopoly Lisa and millions of other anxious high school students face has been solidifying for more than half a century. At first blush, one would guess the companies that create and sell all these tests--the College Board and its spin-off, the ETS--would be shaken to their square roots by the latest rebellion against SATs. In truth, they should hardly notice. Both companies rely less and less on the SAT for income each year, and while the industry is becoming more competitive, the testing business as a whole is in the midst of a boom. The standards...
...another nasty fissure. When the U.S. and Britain bombed Iraq two weeks ago, they didn't even inform France or Germany in advance. The French Foreign Minister, Hubert Védrine, denounced the raid last week as having "no legal basis"-so much for solidarity. European leaders are deeply anxious about Washington's plans to build a limited missile shield, but the Bush Administration has said bluntly that while it's willing to talk over the details, its mind is made up. Disputes are looming about how to rejigger sanctions against Iraq and over which countries should next get into...
...resumed selling American secrets, he grew increasingly anxious. "I have come as close as I ever want to come to sacrificing myself to help you and I get silence," he complained in March 2000. "I hate silence..." Speculating darkly about his own motives, he wrote: "One might propose that I am either insanely brave or quite insane. I'd answer neither. I'd say, insanely loyal. Take your pick. There is insanity in all the answers." Though he believed he had so far "judged the edge correctly" of his own jeopardy, "it's been a long time, my dear friends...
...that could cover everything from lung cancer and emphysema to a heart attack. Should the subject answer no, the cold reader will often say, "Well, we'll get back to that," and quickly change tack. It's a sophisticated form of the game Twenty Questions, during which the subject, anxious to hear from the dead, seldom realizes that he, not the medium or the departed, is supplying the answers...