Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...match the GOP's Monday proposal to curtail welfare benefits with drastic cuts in "corporate welfare," his term for billions of dollars inbusiness tax credits and subsidies. The address to the moderate Democratic Leadership Council had originally been billed as the last of Reich's triptych on "the anxious middle class." But Reich, apparently reacting to the election results and the new GOP attack on welfare policy, delivered a tirade against what he identified as $225 billion in tax benefits for particular industries. "Since we are committed to moving the disadvantaged from welfare to work, why not target corporate welfare...
...landscape of Pauline's and Juliet's minds as a fetid garden, where fairytale plots of courtly love and castle intrigue blot out their edgy lives at home and school. The girls' vision of Borovnia utterly mesmerizes them. Anyone who would break the spell -- like Pauline's sweet, anxious mum -- must be a witch. Must be sentenced to death...
Clinton, according to a Democratic Party operative who spoke with him last week, is anxious and confused about his looming migration to the middle. One reason is that Clinton still deeply resents the Democratic moderates for abandoning him on elements of his economic program and health-care reform. Now he must turn to them to revive his presidency -- only to find their ranks depleted. For Clinton, the scenario is almost sad: elected as a New Democrat, he stumbled during his first two years in office largely because he proposed Big Government solutions, like his health-care plan, to a populace...
...Cangiamila said there were more complaints than usual this year about illegal campaigning near the polls, because Question 9 made people in Cambridge "very anxious" about the election...
...Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, tables and bleachers set up for the event were packed. All three floors of the ARCO Forum were filled with anxious spectators eating, drinking, talking and, most of all, watching the results...