Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anxious about looking like a tool of the Israelis and fearful of going on the offensive against an armed movement that still retains significant support, Arafat has usually made only token efforts to make Hamas pay for its crimes. P.A. officials, however, were outraged by the meeting with Lipkin-Shahak. According to one, it devolved into a shouting match: "They treated Arafat like a kid in school, telling him to do this and do that." Nevertheless, the P.A. rounded up some 250 Hamas members and renewed an old, largely unenforced demand that residents turn in unlicensed firearms or face prosecution...
Hell will freeze over before Charles says he knows where anyone is coming from. In matters of semantics alone, the distance between this royal pair is obvious. In any public speaking, he is reticent about personal references. The deficiencies in his upbringing are becoming clearer. In 1994, anxious to present his side of an increasingly difficult separation, he made a TV film and authorized a biography, both by British broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby. Charles cited his distant parents, especially his authoritarian father, for some of his difficulties. Hardly a gentlemanly thing to do, but his point is underscored...
...this moment my own blocking situation is sketchy, at best. I know I have somewhere to go, people to live with, but none of it is certain. There are others like me out there--anxious, confused and content to live in their freshman dorms forever. In fact, I'll probably end up blocking with them. But right now, the dreaded blocking preparations have been weighing on my mind even more than the week's worth of neglected reading that awaits. Oh, the agony...
William Wright-Swadel, the new OCS director, moderated the panel before an overflowing crowd in Science Center B. Experts on fellowships and on careers in public service, media, the arts, health and business were also on hand to give advice and answer questions from anxious parents...
...keep pace with inflation. One big reason: layoffs and other cost-cutting moves kept workers in line and their paycheck demands low. Meanwhile, corporate profits climbed 22% last year. In the face of numbers like those, the G.O.P. mantra--that growth alone will solve the problems of the Anxious Middle Class--can start to sound like "Let them eat the Dow Jones industrial average...