Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school that has an enrollment of about 400 blacks and 50 whites. Recently, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, she presented her conclusion: the whites-most of them children of parents who moved into the neighborhood because they believed in integration-were usually anxious, fearful and isolated...
Then last September, a drifter named Kerry Lee "found God," as he put it, and confessed to police in South Carolina that he had committed the murder. With Albuquerque police none too anxious to attack their own original theory, Glazier and defense attorneys for the bikers went to South Carolina to get Lee's story. They confirmed that the murder gun, for example, had belonged to the father of Lee's girl friend. Though the district attorney persisted in backing his first charge, a judge last week finally quashed the murder indictments and turned the bikers loose. "Sure...
...visit with Mao Tse-tung, who rules nearly a quarter of humanity, remains one of this world's most intriguing human encounters. Gerald Ford, who is the world's most powerful man, was anxious to meet the Chairman, but he was not even certain Mao would see him in Peking. Nothing had been asked or promised when Ford embarked on his journey to China...
...insists that it decided to postpone the Moscow trip on its own and that the decision somewhat annoyed the Russians. However, there were indications from the Russians themselves that the Kremlin was not displeased. According to one theory, Brezhnev still wants a SALT II agreement, but he is also anxious to give potential opponents at the Party Congress no chance to suggest that he has given the U.S. concessions under pressure of a deadline. Says one Kremlin watcher in Moscow: "If Brezhnev goes into the Congress and says he is not ready to sign the SALT agreement because the Soviet...
...Limit population growth. The poor countries must recognize that they are-as U.S. Economist Rawle Farley puts it-in an "anxious race between demography and development." In nearly all the developing nations, the consumption demands of increased population are undermining even the best strategies for economic development. Egypt's Aswan High Dam, for instance, has added 25% to that country's arable land; yet, between 1955 when plans for the dam were conceived and 1970 when the project was completed, the population of the country swelled a staggering 50%, to more than 30 million...