Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maroon turtleneck and khakis, Kasich had dropped by Gingrich's office to present his latest proposals for one of the biggest challenges in selling the "Contract with America": making the numbers add up. Most of the . other new G.O.P. leaders had gathered around the coffee table where he sat, anxious to see how Kasich was faring with a job that defies political physics: figuring out how to spend more than $100 billion over the next five years on an income-tax cut, as well as numerous tax breaks for wealthy investors and business, while beefing up spending for the military...
...rent-control board met for three hours yesterday, hastening to respond to a flurry of calls from anxious tenants...
...call attention to themselves. But John T. Horn, head of corporate security at Kroll Associates, a New York-based security company, is careful to keep the matter in perspective. "It's highly unlikely that you'll get one in the mail," says Horn, who himself fielded dozens of anxious calls last week. "One event doesn't make it an epidemic." Some of those with the most to fear agree. "Sure, it bothers the hell out of me -- like any terrorist act would," says one prominent computer scientist. "But it's not going to change the way I do things." Says...
Even though he remembers the expeditions fondly, Mayr says he was anxious to get back...
...computer-like: he has an almost-human brain and a silicon chip where his heart should be. They and a very good supporting cast often ground Disclosure in some kind of behavioral honesty, almost turn it into a realistic portrait of the modern workplace -- full of false camaraderie, anxious rumors and secret- status warfare. But not to worry. When truth and cheap thrills compete in a movie, you know what must...