Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back on the T and came back. She was going to get tickets online, she said. Forget this sleep outside thing. I had to reassure her through several near-nervous breakdowns when she couldn't access the Web site. Finally she got through on the phone and bought tickets. Later, she told me she didn't feel she had "earned" the tickets. She hadn't worked hard enough. It was too easy. She didn't deserve to go on opening...
...middle of the conversation [the Kosovar doctor] took out of his jacket a makeshift little wallet," Leaning says. "He had a picture of one of his patients... he also had two photographs of microscope slides... documenting the extent of the infection in the central nervous system...
...this makes even Hoffman-La Roche, Xenical's manufacturer, nervous. "We're trying to encourage patients to seek proper medical supervision," says president Patrick Zenner. Still, there's nothing they--or the FDA--can do about offshore pill pushers. (Besides, the feds have other online woes; last week they warned users against relatives of the so-called date-rape drug GHB, which are available online under names like Serenity, Enliven and SomatoPro...
...working perversely to soften NATO's resolve. With the alliance flying more than 200 sorties a day, the rate of collateral damage is growing. Serbia's state-controlled media claimed last week that another errant bomb killed more than 60 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, making some allies more nervous about civilian casualties. Germany's Green Party, part of the government's ruling coalition, broke ranks and called for a "limited halt" to the bombing. To placate U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has been pressing for another independent broker in the peace talks, Albright enlisted Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari...
...would-be Prime Ministers of a still nonexistent Republic of Kosova, the Bonn-based Bukoshi claims that his government-in-exile has spent more than $4 million on arms and supplies for the K.L.A. in the weeks since NATO bombings began. At Bukoshi's request his "finance minister"--extremely nervous and clearly on edge--presents a computer printout that he says documents part of the Republic of Kosova Fund's holdings in a bank in Tirana, Albania: more than $33 million...