Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face of it, the request seemed reasonable enough -- especially since the friend doing the asking was also the friend destined to be doing the giving. But last week when President Bush, anxious to keep the Middle East peace process on track, asked Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to delay his request for $10 billion in loan guarantees to help with the settlement of Soviet Jewish emigres, Shamir responded with a belligerent no. Americans, Shamir insisted, "are obliged, from a moral point of view, to give Israel this aid." Moreover, he lectured, "humanitarian aid" should not be mixed up with political...
...most interesting, thoughtfully conceived new cars coming out of Southern California may, in the end, owe less to local free-spiritedness than to the simple wisdom of hiring a few talented people and allowing them to work, leaving their problem-solving sessions and reveries undisturbed by the anxious buzz of corporate headquarters...
...think that it's all going to hit me until after the game," Giardi said. "I'm just real anxious for it all to get started...
...Northeastern field hockey team entered yesterday's game against Harvard with a deceptive 0-3 record. Its losses have come against national powerhouses: Maryland, Iowa and Northwestern, and it was anxious to notch its first victory...
While regulators admitted that new rules may ultimately be needed, they argued strenuously against any knee-jerk changes. The Treasury Department, anxious to regain its authority over a market it relies on to raise capital, announced that it was reopening its investigation to see if Salomon and one of its clients, Mercury Asset Management, worked together to cover up a bogus bid last February. Treasury's renewed interest may have been prompted in part by a Justice Department announcement that it was widening its probe of unauthorized bidding practices in search of violators in other Wall Street firms...