Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing their job, too?" To this I answer, yes, they are, in fact many of them also have been hit with foolish warnings. But for the past year and a half that I've been a shop steward, I have been raising an issue that the University is especially anxious to keep swept under the carpet. I am speaking of the grievances I have raised about the non-posting of job opportunities. I believe it is mainly because of raising this subject that I have become so unpopular with management...
...opposes the Smith government; after all, it speaks for a minority of 278,000 whites in a country of some 6.1 million blacks. But Washington wants a peaceful transition to majority rule in Rhodesia, and it is anxious to head off a possibility of Soviet-Cuban intervention there. For one thing, an intervention of that kind would further tear the already badly shredded fabric of détente. More directly, it would leave the Administration uncomfortably facing a choice between two painful policy alternatives...
Last week Kissinger took steps to signal the Kremlin that, however anxious the U.S. may be to curb the arms race, which is the central feature of détente, Washington will resist Soviet "adventurism." Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Secretary warned that "exploiting local crises for unilateral gain"?a reference to Kremlin intervention in Angola?"is not acceptable. This nation will not seek confrontations lightly, but we are determined to defend peace by resistance to pressures and irresponsible actions." For starters, the State Department announced that three scheduled Cabinet-level meetings with the Soviets on trade...
...high-minded theories of education are not much use to young people thinking about bread and butter. Inside the colleges, anxious students have often become prematurely professionalized and disturbingly competitive. At New York's Columbia University, for example, one-third of the freshmen have enrolled in pre-med courses. "As Americans, we really prize a degree, but I'm not sure we prize an education," muses Georgetown Dean Royden B. Davis...
Standing out on the ice on that Thursday night in January, the people at the end of the line are getting anxious. They are not exactly worried whether or not Patti Smith is A Legend Before Her Own Time. More to the point, they wonder if they can be saved from frostbite. The guys at the door don't tell anyone what the limit will be. They are letting people in slowly, slowly, like a bloodletting. Two hundred and fifty people are allowed to challenge the fire laws before the last 50 are told to forget it. An hour...