Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real threat to anxious heirs comes not from gilded wheelchairs and Carnival Cruise Lines but medical bills. With average annual costs of nursing- home care running at about $30,000, few estates can survive a long convalescence. The only solace is that not all families get soaked. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that among those 65 and older, 43% will enter a nursing home at some point. Of those, 26% will stay less than three months over their lifetime, and 45% will stay less than a year...
...quark," exclaims Fermilab physicist Alvin Tollestrup, "probably weighs at least as much as a whole silver atom does." (With an atomic weight of 108, a silver atom is made up of hundreds of up and down quarks.) Exactly how much top quarks weigh is a question scientists are anxious to answer, but first they must find some to measure -- a task considerably complicated by the fact that in nature these massive but ethereal entities made only a cameo appearance, just after the Big Bang...
...Morris said the Golden Knights are antsy and anxious to face the Crimson in what he called "a huge game...
Despite their varying reactions to the settlement, most workers indicated that they would support the new contract. And several said they were anxious to begin reaping its benefits...
Face it, they've got your number. "Retirement Plan A: Uncle Winthrop dies and leaves you $50 million." Sound familiar? This typical desperate fantasy of anxious mid-lifers everywhere was the perfect setup for the recurring message in Aetna's campaign about the importance of financial planning: "Retirement Plan B: Call Aetna." In a series of ads that delivered reassurance with a smile ("Plan A: You strike oil while planting petunias . . ."), Aetna reminded a generation of Americans that it is never too late to get real...