Word: anxious
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...such a young age? Because of a growing recognition that colleges need to reach out if they are to attract the best and brightest applicants from an increasingly diverse population, and because parents are more anxious than ever about their children's prospects for higher education, "tracking"--or predetermining kids' educational and career paths--has become the latest strategy in the college-admissions game. "Kids need to hear the message that anyone can go to college and need to know how to make that possible," says Diana Phillips, director of the U.S. Department of Education's middle school initiative, Think...
...money gets put on the table. At Merrill, winners get rich and losers just get fired. In day-trading, winners get rich but losers go broke. Regulators don?t have a problem with that -? not yet. But as the world of investing gets more and more democratic, they?re anxious that all the suckers get an even break...
...often accuse ourselves of being cruel and voyeuristic and of devouring our heroes, but this man was loved, genuinely, by people who didn't know him and weren't anxious to. It would have been heartbreaking to see him turn up on talk shows to explain himself. We wanted him to be distant. The press--even the ferocious iconoclasts of the tabloids--gave him room. He sowed his wild oats and went nightclubbing and hung out with inappropriate women, and nobody begrudged him this. Of course, he was lucky to live in New York City, whose citizens are proud...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataPrivately, Alan Greenspan can crow a little. With one eye on the so-called "new paradigm," in which tech-driven productivity gains naturally outstrip price pressures, and the other eye on a shaky Latin America, the Fed chairman isn?t anxious to raise rates. But some of his FOMC colleagues at that big mahogany table have been getting antsy about the Fed?s turning into a paper tiger, kowtowing to the stock market and letting the economy run wild and free. This week?s numbers give Greenspan a perfect reason not to listen. "There?s just...
Paris and its inhabitants seem to spurn the traditional, anxious to show the world that they can find a new way to live, built on beauty, style, elegance--and ultimate equality. Have they succeeded? In the answer to that simple question lies the elixir of Paris that places some in its thrall and repels others...