Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because he is impatient and not sure how much longer he can keep the maps of turn-of-the-century San Francisco and Seattle inside his head, Asakawa wants to finish his novel soon. He said he is anxious to write about Brazil, where more Japanese are settled than anywhere else outside of Japan and where many old values are maintained. But after finishing his novel he says he will probably take a routine job for a while for the sake of his "sanity...
...Michael Zearott, require auditions, but the standards are not too demanding, and the spectrum of people accepted is fairly wide, according to Julie Montgomery, who handles promotion for the Summer School arts program. Orchestra members generally include all stripe of musician from ardent high schoolers to professional union members anxious not to pass the summer without performing...
...other hand, no surge of new atomic construction is likely. At present, 56 nuclear plants are producing electricity in the U.S.; the Ford Administration, anxious to reduce American dependence on foreign oil, had hoped that 200 "nukes" would be operating by 1985. But the cost of building reactors is skyrocketing: one nuclear plant in Michigan that was originally budgeted at $260 million will wind up costing $1.4 billion. And though nuclear plants can produce electricity more cheaply than plants burning coal or oil, the cost is going up: the price of uranium fuel has leaped from $7 a pound...
...anxious to put the brakes on projects which would unnecessarily drain professorial and planning manpower away from Cambridge. "I don't think we'd do such a good job if we took on the role of operating an institution so far away once it is planned and built," he says...
...trying to provide a long-run assurance to the community that we're not going to be buying outside certain boundaries," Bok says. "You have to keep building a certain amount, but I'm anxious to slow that down at this point...