Word: anxious
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...SENATE UNANIMOUSLY DEMANDED EARLIER THIS month that the Bush Administration declassify and make public all secret POW/MIA documents now in the Pentagon's possession. But what exactly is in them? Insiders who have reviewed the papers say anxious families are in for a big disappointment once again. All relevant documents were shown to family members long ago, and more than 1.3 million pages have already been shown to members and staff of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs without any convincing results. Key sections of some internal Pentagon memorandums have already been leaked, and although they reflect "sloppy...
...construction industry has been fairlyslack recently, and companies are anxious to havesome building going," he said...
...Those anxious to scuttle the Maastricht agreement quickly pointed out that it cannot legally take effect in any of the 12 E.C. countries until approved by all of them. "The Danes' decision has blown a hole in the treaty below the waterline," argued British Conservative M.P. Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson, with scarcely suppressed glee. Still others hailed the plebiscite as a triumph for democracy, highlighting the abyss between voters and their political leaders who, in Denmark's case, had campaigned vigorously for the treaty's approval...
What is going on? Experts say fluctuations from normal readings are, well, normal and that weird weather is the rule, not the exception. But the highs and lows and wets and drys over the past two years have been so extreme that anxious questions are arising. Could these outbursts of wacky weather be related to those fires from the gulf war? That hole in the ozone layer? The global warming trend that environmentalists have been predicting for so many years...
Designing the house system early this century, then-President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, envisioned a community of scholars--elite professors dining with wet be hind-the-ears undergraduates anxious for academic guidance...