Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Federal Government, the failure of the public schools, the decline of public decency and the stubborn inability of the American underclass to rise out of poverty. He bundled up these anxieties cleverly, even brilliantly, and set them ablaze. "I want to encourage you to be a little anxious," he writes in his book To Renew America, "and then I want to encourage you to turn that anxiety into energy...
...first I was concerned because my roommates think I am insane...but then I talked to him about my fears and he was very reassuring. Now I'm just excited and very anxious," the sophomore says. "I'm really trying not to place unfair expectations on our meeting...
...review committee is anxious to learn about your experiences and perspectives," the letter reads. "We are interested in knowing what part(s) of the program you have found most--or least--valuable? Our mandate, ultimately, is 'to advise the Faculty on the character and degree of any changes that may seem desirable...
...Politics for inviting Arafat and Rabin this semester, thereby creating an extraordinary opportunity for campus dialogue. But we feel nervous about Arafat's leadership. We are doing business with a man who over the course of 35 years has been responsible for the deaths of many Jews. We are anxious for peace, but Arafat must assure the world that he can be trusted. We strongly support the efforts he has taken to curb terrorism...
...proposed cuts in Medicare payments, which total some $270 billion over seven years, will force hospitals to make substantial changes in the way they conduct their business. And Harvard's main teaching hospitals--Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, Children's, Beth Israel and the Deaconess--are all very anxious about the prospect of impending cuts...