Word: anxious
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Anxious to keep its image as the regulation-slashing champion of American business intact, the Senate said today it will reject an international treaty on global warming unless the developing world signs on as well. Appeals by a data-spouting Undersecretary of State Timothy Wirth for industrialized countries to lead the way in combatting the planet's "most important environmental challenge" fell on deaf ears as senators wondered aloud what was the point of a treaty that lets sizeable carbon dioxide-guzzlers such as China continue to pollute at will. The Administration plans to present its strategy...
...YORK CITY: The increasing likelihood that the crash of TWA Flight 800 was the result of mechanical failure may turn out to be good news for Boeing. The reason? Airlines are now even more anxious to replace their older planes with newer models. Days after Newsday said that a draft report by the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the 26-year-old plane essentially came apart in midair, Continental Airlines finalized a $3.5 billion order with Boeing to upgrade its fleet. "That 747 had logged 110,000 flying hours," Lee Kreindler, who represents some of the families in civil...
...agitated an already-anxious crowd," Demian said. "It may have intensified things...
...slightly chilly the morning of March 20, 1997, when hundreds of anxious first-years set their alarms for 5:30 a.m., the rumored time that housing assignments would be dropped at first-years' doors...
...build bridges to Beijing to achieve a working relationship. Lee's is to build a wall in order to achieve complete autonomy. So which one really speaks for Hong Kong? And who will do a better job guiding the fortunes of this wealthy colony and its 6.4 million anxious residents...