Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just how much upheaval will Kim bring? The President-elect moved quickly to reassure the anxious markets. "I will adhere to the agreement already reached with the IMF and faithfully carry out reforms," Kim promised the nation the morning after his win. Well aware of how deep antipathy toward him runs among conservatives, Kim will need to reach out immediately if he is to amass enough support to push through those prescriptions. Last week he successfully requested pardons for two ex-Presidents who, as generals, had persecuted...
...describes the singular disinterest with which the activists seem to approach community service, perhaps she is noticing this phenomenon. Getting "down and dirty" in the trenches, making a positive difference in the lives of the less fortunate has rarely been the priority of the activists. Rather, many simply seem anxious to talk...
With such high expectations for national leadership, these same bright and ambitious students would do better to take the opportunity while at Harvard to learn some politics. This, I know is a hard sell. Anxious to make their impact on America's destiny, these students have come here for serious study with top-flight scholars. They push themselves hard in order to graduate with outstanding educational achievements and impressive resumes. Committed to scholarship, their attitude toward politics falls somewhere between disdain and indifference. Even at the Kennedy School of Government many students think that policy expertise is a fungible commodity...
...said the E.C. should not be so anxious to dock points, but instead should simply warn candidates. He said he thinks the E.C. is definitely more strict about enforcing the regulations this year than in the past...
Regardless of whether they went home or to a friend's house or stayed on campus, students' overriding sentiment was that Thanksgiving functions primarily as an anti-climactic precursor to winter break, and just makes them anxious to go home again...