Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Alia's modest reforms seem to have split the 53-member Central Committee of the ruling party. Many Western diplomats believe a strong conservative faction has grown up around Hoxha's widow Nexhmije, supported by the Sigurimi, Albania's much feared secret police force. Anxious to slow if not halt the reforms, the conservatives may even have sought to oust Alia...
Until they come out of their shells, the twentysomething/baby-bust generation will be a frustrating enigma. Riche calls them the New Petulants because "they can often end up sounding like whiners." Their anxious indecision creates a kind of ominous fog around them. Yet those who take a more sanguine view see in today's young adults a sophistication, tolerance and candor that could help repair the excesses of rampant individualism. Here is a guide for understanding the puzzling twentysomething crowd...
Soviet negotiators are coming around on the question of their waning role in Afghanistan. If anything, Moscow now seems as anxious as the U.S. to finalize a deal. An agreement has seemed imminent ever since last month's Bush- Gorbachev summit in Washington, and State Department officials believe it could come during the third Two-plus-Four conference in Paris next week. Moscow has sent a delegation to Washington to work out details of President Najibullah's future role, an acceptable election procedure and establishment of a vote-monitoring commission...
...Philadelphia crew was a threelength winner over an English eight, Cherwell Boat Club, in the Thames Cup--but only after some anxious moments...
...looking forward to it a great deal," he said. "[Coaching] has always been a first love. I'm very anxious to get back into it again...