Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardware. He has already rung up one sale worth perhaps $4 billion. Responding to a letter from the President to the Emir, the Kuwaitis decided to buy 236 U.S.-built Abrams tanks instead of British Challengers. Granted, the circumstances were special. After Desert Storm, perhaps no nation is more anxious to retain American goodwill than Kuwait. And few gestures would win more presidential gratitude than a contract just before the election that will preserve 5,900 jobs in the vote-rich states of Michigan and Ohio...
PEOPLE WHO DOWN MORE THAN THREE CUPS OF coffee a day know how awful they can feel when they can't get their caffeine fix. Now a study reveals that even those who sip just two or three cups a day can become anxious, drowsy, sluggish, headachy and depressed if they go cold turkey on Java. The symptoms can be so severe that people stay home from work or visit their doctor, who may fail to tie the patient's problems to sudden cessation of coffee consumption. In the experiment, people deprived of caffeine complained that they felt worse than...
...Both Nancy and I are quite anxious to move onand develop other parts of our life after six andone-half years," said Jeffrey Williamson, who isBell professor of economics. "It's awkward for usto stay on--I hope they get someone in to do agood...
...which owns the current CASPAR cite and is anxious to move the shelter, has provided the new Green Street location. In return for three city street MIT has agreed to develop the Green Street cite to CASPAR's specifications and give it to the city. The city in turn will lease the building to the shelter...
During the anxious pre-election gyrations, though, analysts recommend that investors stay put -- either in the market or out of it. Small investors, says John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors, "should close their eyes and wait it out." Many individuals have fled to the relative safety of diversified mutual funds, such as Fidelity's Asset Manager, which spreads out risk by investing in a mix of stocks, bonds and money-market instruments...