Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mexico's battered economy stabilized after President Clinton -- backed by congressional Republicans -- said the U.S. stood ready to help. The American offer: as much as $40 billion in loan guarantees. Mexican stocks, which had fallen early in the week, rose after the announcement. Still, Mexicans remained anxious about their country's fiscal health. Said a Mexico City electronics dealer: "This is a time bomb. People will take to the streets." Hundreds of upper-middle-class housewives did, marching on the presidential residence with their cellular phones in hand and their maids alongside waving banners demanding TRUTH AND DEMOCRACY...
...survived the persecution and chaos of the Cultural Revolution to set the country on the path toward reform cannot manage even ( this modest circumambulation: he can no longer walk or stand unaided. Yet in a way the methodical tally continues, if only in the anxious timekeeping of millions of politicians, businessmen and ordinary Chinese...
...rule. But the fact that Xiao Rong revealed news of her father's infirmity just before the Jan. 31 celebration of the Chinese New Year, when the nation is traditionally afforded a rare public glimpse of the man, seemed primarily intended to signal something the world has been anxious to know: the time remaining until the day Deng must "go to meet Marx," as he once put it, is short...
...money for job training for welfare recipients, they are willing to increase the bloated Pentagon budget. Nevertheless, they are opposed to foreign intervention, even on a small scale such as the action in Haiti. President Clinton has even proposed a $25 billion increase for the military, but Republicans are anxious to outdo...
...that he won't hesitate to discard once sacred rules of seniority if they keep him from appointing those who will more closely follow his vision and authority. With the term limits for chairmen the House approved last week, Gingrich ensures a whole crop of would-be successors all anxious to stay in his good graces for, the electorate willing, the next eight years...