Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, there was plenty of activity outside the committee room. Reported TIME Capitol Hill Correspondent Neil MacNeil: "To the corridors of the Longworth Office Building flocked senior Administration officials and top Washington tax lobbyists. They huddled in dark corners with anxious conferees to check the latest status of the 126 individual points before the joint committee. Arms were being twisted and deals being made. An example was the special tax deduction for companies with personnel based overseas. The House version cut the tax liability of such firms by $545 million; the Senate break was a more modest $310 million. This...
...result, movie stars, TV personalities, politicians and jet-setters have been joined in the plastic surgery wards and clinics by secretaries, assembly-line workers, housewives and business executives anxious to fit into a youth-oriented society. Says Dr. Laurence LeWinn of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "If we were in China, people would want to have wrinkles put in so that they could be revered citizens. Here we have the wrinkles removed...
...truth, John Paul's honeymoon period was not yet over. Some liberals were anxious about this surprise Pope with his profound doctrinal traditionalism, but they kept it to themselves. If he had lived to issue his first encyclical, make his first appointments, the ideological factions in Catholicism that were temporarily united behind this leader might have reverted to their past divisiveness. Observes Ontario's Archbishop G. Emmett Carter: "It will be very difficult for the new Pope. John Paul wasn't there long enough to make any significant decisions and thus he made no enemies. The new Pope's decisions...
Another complication: many plants that failed to pass new pollution regulations have had to close, and capital that would have been used to expand capacity has had to be spent to meet environmental standards. So anxious are construction men about this situation that the National Home Builders Association has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to allow cement makers more time to install antipollution devices and permit the reopening of some plants that have been shut down. But even if the EPA were to agree, some builders may be unable to get the cement they need before the first freeze...
Jewish comedians, he argues, are "overwhelmingly anxious" people who turn most of their humor on themselves. Though self-deprecation is traditional in Jewish humor, says Janus, it has a special function in America: it serves as "ritual exorcism" for conflicts shared with Jewish audiences, and it assures Gentile audiences that Jewish humor is not threatening...