Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to lack of counseling and Advanced Placement courses, students in poorer communities are also far less likely to have access to exam-preparation courses that teach strategies for doing well on standardized tests, or to be able to hire private college counselors, a tactic increasingly resorted to by anxious students...
...biggest changes, all agree, must come on the job, where family-friendly policies have too often been fringe benefits that anxious employees feel too insecure to exercise. A promising exception is General Motors' Saturn Co. in Spring Hill, Tennessee, where teams of up to 15 people decide how they will meet production goals set by management. Employees work 10-hour days, four days a week, with rotating day and night shifts. At the end of each three-week cycle, they get five consecutive days off. This adds up to far more family time a year and creates flexibility within...
...These anxious words instantly struck a chord. Forty-one American newspapers and magazines reprinted them. Letters and phone calls flooded the office of Cleveland Press editor Louis Seltzer to tell him he had put his finger on our gravest crisis with his editorial--in the summer...
...Tumulty. What is truly significant about the tax-day stunt, she says, is that the Republican Congress has now voted on more constitutional amendments than any Congress since the Bill of Rights was enacted. "It is sort of ironic that the people who bill themselves as conservatives seem so anxious to make changes in the Constitution." The measure was being debated Monday without so much as one committee hearing, said Tumulty, and attendance was sparse on the House floor Monday afternoon. "Amending the constitution is just about the most serious thing the Congress could do," notes Tumulty, but five hours...
...Mountain Dew before every game since his summer leagues in high school. If game time approaches and he still hasn't had his Mountain Dew, he'll get anxious and earnestly try to find some...