Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working at the Pets.com booth, one of the hottest booths on the banks, offering free frisbees and ultra-coveted large tennis balls to anxious spectators...
...nature of those daylong specials--both of which produced monster returns if you bought bushels of stock the day after--some sellers are simply trying to raise enough cash for the expected mini-crash. Others, mindful that it has been a super market for tech all year, are anxious to take something off the table ahead of a quick sell-off that might wipe out those gains...
...putting undue stress on the rest of the band with regard to touring and recording. Luckily, Talk Show, an STP album without Weiland's lyrical and vocal talent, spurred the other band members to pine for the chemistry that once produced musicianship that helped define grunge. Thankfully for anxious STP fans, No. 4 satisfies the STP craving fans were so ruefully denied...
Those questions also seem to be haunting Assad Sr. Although he is anxious not to appear in haste, many diplomats are convinced that Assad is determined not to miss the new opportunity for talks that arose with the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in May. In Syria's earlier rounds of negotiations, Assad moved cautiously, only to react bitterly to the deadlock that followed the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the subsequent defeat of Rabin's moderate successor Shimon Peres by hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. Assad is also more focused on Syria's inevitable political transition...
...been fomenting communal violence against Shi?ite Muslim communities inside Pakistan. The Taliban, predictably, lashed out at the U.N. resolution and vowed to defy international pressure to hand over the man accused of masterminding last year?s deadly attacks on U.S. embassies in East Africa. Nonetheless, the movement is anxious to consolidate its control over Afghanistan and normalize relations with the international economy ?- a quest that won?t be helped by tales of its fighters? savagery against civilians reported in Monday?s New York Times. "The Taliban can?t afford to be seen to cave in to U.S. pressure," says...