Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Nations peace-keeping forces on the Golan expires Nov. 30, and if their stay is not extended, the possibility of hostilities will increase sharply. Assad, who is clearly keeping a negotiating door open, has indicated that he will not accept a limited Israeli withdrawal. Although he is anxious for an agreement, Assad obviously is taking a hard line to prevent Arab radicals from accusing him of appeasement. Rabin says that while Israel is willing to move back considerably from its present Golan lines, it will insist that strategically important Mount Hermon remain demilitarized...
...they can easily understand. The simple one-page document-one-third as long as its predecessor-spells out the bank's and borrower's obligations in relaxed you and I terms with nary a hereinafter to get in the way. And Citibank is not alone (see box). Anxious to stimulate business, banks and insurance companies alike are hastening to switch from the old long-winded fine print to the new legal-ease...
...main objection was that the doctor's announcement to a parent that her son was biologically abnormal was coercive because it left the parent, anxious over the development of her child, no real choice as to participation in the investigation. Either as a result of the outside pressure (Brown and Beckwith say) or as a result of increasingly restrictive legislation regarding informed conseent (Gerald says), Walzer began obtaining written consent from mothers to take blood tests on their boys...
...Democrats, who badly wanted their party to gain the seat vacated by Republican hardliner Norris Cotton, began calling for a new election, Durkin refused to change his position. So Wyman was able to portray himself as the champion of letting the electorate make the choice, with Durkin appearing anxious to take the decision away from the people of New Hampshire. And when the inevitable happened, and the Senate finally decided to call for a special election, Durkin's original image as the spokesman for the little man, against big corporations and special interests, was pretty badly tarnished...
...professionals they are uncertain. As citizens they are uptight, anxious and cynical about government...