Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...destroy the Rabta plant in the past, and only a week before the fire confirmed that the factory had already produced up to 30 tons of mustard gas. The Israelis are eager to score points with Washington, with whom ! relations are at a low ebb. Bonn may be anxious to atone for the fact that a West German company helped build the facility...
Poland could get its faltering economy back on track by selling the lands east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers to United Germany. Many Germans are openly anxious to get back the territory they lost after World War II. And unlike the Lithuanians, the Germans have lots of hard currency on hand...
...death decisions are as common as they are complex. They are most acutely conscious of the allocation of scarce resources -- time, money and their own energy -- among patients who might be cured and those who can only be sustained. And it is they who must offer explanations to the anxious families of patients whose lives are lost but not yet gone...
...Catholics. There was always internal resistance. We thought the system could not last long, that we had to accept it as a result of the war, of Hitler's despotism and the cruelty of that regime. Yet we were always afraid of being denounced. My mother was always anxious, telling us, "Don't say anything political," when we went to school...
...deliberately fomented by a group of young radicals within the republic's government who want to give the area an Islamic character. Some extreme elements, he says, have been calling bluntly for the establishment of an Islamic republic. The intellectual reported that all non-Tadzhiks in the republic are anxious to leave and, as he put it, "everyone is terrified" of what will happen with the departure of some 7,000 Soviet soldiers who arrived in Tadzhikistan after the disturbances began...