Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign airports that it regards as sloppily run -starting with Palma, Majorca, where the four hijackers had boarded the Lufthansa flight two weeks earlier. Bonn told Madrid flatly that unless the Germans were allowed to handle their own security, they would cancel all flights between Majorca and West Germany. Anxious to avoid such a blow to its tourist industry, the Spanish government reluctantly agreed...
Carter does intend to propose taxing all capital gains at full ordinary-income rates (at present, only half the profit on sales of assets such as stock and real estate is usually taxed). Businessmen complain that that would inhibit the very investment the President says he is so anxious to promote. Says James L. Moody Jr., president of Hannaford Bros. Co., a Maine food distributor: "The chief incentive to invest in business is to make money. Such proposals will slow down businessmen's investments in the U.S. at a time when countries like the Soviet Union and Japan...
...past three years to mull over the potential dangers of conducting such research. Scientists are straining for the opportunity to conduct experiments that are already permitted in other parts of the world. And they slowly, but surely, seem to be winning their point, despite the struggles of citizens anxious to ensure the safety of their communities and their futures...
Carter's position was more complex. Presumably anxious to get his program moving, he did not want to discourage such supporters as Abourezk and Metzenbaum, but he also did not want to step on Byrd's leadership prerogatives. In the end, he apparently failed to communicate to anyone his desires on whether to end the filibuster...
...even more important than Haydon had been. Are the siblings estranged? Or is their relationship thicker then blood? Smiley backtracks through archives and files to find names, places, references once suppressed by Haydon. Midway through the paper chase, coherence emerges. A devious plan unfolds, vouchsafed piecemeal to the anxious reader. The opening moves are made with Jerry Westerby, an aristocratic refugee from occasional Circus assignments now living in the Tuscany hills, where his bookish habits have earned him the sobriquet "the Schoolboy." Westerby carries the spy's classic cards of identity: robust health, womanizing instincts and moral numbness. With words...