Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applied in nonmilitary realms -- in the environmental area, for instance, where restraints might be far more intrusive than military protectiveness, perhaps involving close public scrutiny of industrial practices, even household behavior? Instead it may be time to relax a bit and give room to other, more positive and less anxious goals: health, liberty, equity, cultural enrichment, environmental enhancement -- for their own sake rather than security...
Such caveats, opponents claim, bolster the contention that the Front is a neo-Communist Party anxious to retain much of the old order. "Iliescu is just like Gorbachev," charges Iuleu Boila of the Peasant Party. "He is interested in perestroika rather than real change...
Some moviemakers think this summer's crop may include some disasters. "I can't imagine a more boring lineup of films," says one anxious executive. "The costs are out of hand, and the need for a safety net causes people to make formulas and sequels. I have this incredible sensation that the industry is at the top of a deep rapids and that there's going to be a fatality rate. Anyone who denies that is a fool or a liar...
...noisy Philadelphia crowd, anxious to see the battle between the top two-rated eights in the East, witnessed an Adams Cup finish fitting of the legend behind the race. Two years ago in Annapolis, high winds and whitecaps resulted in the Quakers' defeat of a heavily-favored Harvard boat. Last year in Cambridge, the Crimson was down by more than one length with 1000 meters to go, charged back and beat the Quaker crew by a bow ball at the finish...
Savage's tirade unleashed a storm that sent Democratic leaders running -- or rather, tiptoeing -- for cover. By failing to condemn Savage quickly, they left themselves open to accusations that their party, anxious not to offend black voters, applies a double standard: denouncing bigotry when Republicans utter racially insensitive remarks and keeping mum when similar slurs are made by African Americans. Such accusations are all the more damning because Republicans, whose veiled appeals to anti-black prejudice have helped win five out of the last six presidential elections, only recently confronted a similar problem and appeared to deal with it firmly...