Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black high school students no longer seem quite so anxious to further their academic careers at Harvard...
...practice was over yesterday, the team appeared anxious but confident. As the players filtered towards Dillon Field House, one player walked out of Briggs Cage whistling--"Take me out to the ball game...
...campaign to increase food production. "We cannot keep on getting food from abroad as a gift," he declared last week. Even though the United Nations will continue its efforts to supply food to Bangladesh to make up the deficit in the country's food production, Mujib is anxious to prove that Bangladesh is capable, finally, of managing...
...crude fact is that speculators who have bet against the dollar since 1971 have profited, while people and companies that could have speculated but held dollars instead have been hurt by two declines in the dollar's value. Many "speculators" are bankers and corporate treasurers who are anxious to keep their overseas holdings in safe currencies. There also is evidence that Middle East oil sheiks, who are paid in U.S. currency for their black gold and thus pile up enormous dollar reserves, have lately traded heavily to get into currencies they think safer. The Arabs are known to have...
Nationwide, dressmakers' production last year dropped 1%, and 6,500 jobs disappeared. As sales sag, costs soar. Wholesale buyers, after the midi misfire, are anxious to avoid stocking ,up on any one style. The result is that dressmakers have to offer greater variety to attract interest-at the expense of their profit margins...