Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech, he vaulted over a fence to plunge into a crowd of well-wishers, while his anxious Secret Service guards tried to catch up as best they could. As people applauded, cheered and reached for the President's outstretched hand, it was clear that Carter had patched up at least some of his problems with farmers in this part of the country...
...choice of three countries situated on the Soviet Union's southern flank did nothing to quell Russian suspicions. For its part, China has been equally worried about Soviet expansionism in Asia, as well as in the Horn of Africa and South Yemen. Peking, in short, was anxious to cultivate friends who would be effective in helping to halt the tide of what it calls Soviet "hegemony...
...yield (8.5%) Government securities, will cover the underwriters' fee and other costs. Unlike federal home-loan subsidies, which now are usually targeted for lower-income home buyers, these mortgages are available to applicants with incomes up to $40,000-the middle-class taxpayers that the city is most anxious to keep...
...Monetary Fund and the prospect this year of 3% economic growth. The question is whether Nobre da Costa can live with a parliament dominated by parties considerably to the left of him politically. Eanes thinks that Nobre da Costa can - and since no one, including Soares' Socialists, is anxious to have elections right now, he may be right...
...just that: they cannot. After nearly a decade, British public opinion still has failed to swing behind the Common Market; moreover, both Tories and Laborites are still internally divided on the question. With a general election looming in October, even pro-European politicians in Britain were not anxious to promote an unpopular cause. All they had to do was look at the polls. The most recent one showed that a majority of Britons?48% to 43%?favor quitting the Common Market altogether...