Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eller still wasn't sure that he wantedto be a rabbi, and he hesitated throughout hisSenior year. The morning before his afternooninterview at the Jewish Theological Seminary(JTS), the rabbinic seminary of the Conservativemovement of Judaism, Heller interviewed with a NewYork company anxious to hire him for his computerskills. "I kind of knew when my last interview waswith the president of the company and I spent thewhole time telling him why Jewish education wasimportant," says Heller with a grin...
...each crop of student activists. As the apocryphal story goes, former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky once told striking students, "You will be here for four years, I will be here for the rest of my life, Harvard will be here forever." Sometimes we wonder who is more anxious for Commencement--the graduates, or their teachers...
Harvey recalls that inside the building, students were very tense and anxious about threats that the police might arrive...
...possibility of another war on the Korean peninsula has forced the U.S. to step carefully. The Administration has been equally anxious that a nuclear- armed North Korea might touch off an atomic-arms race destabilizing all of North Asia. The crisis-a-month inspection drama narrows maneuvering room for each of the partners, pushing them closer to a showdown. And amid the maddening back and forth, there is a disturbing possibility that North Korea may be employing the fuel-rod dispute as a smoke screen to disguise a second, undeclared source of bombmaking uranium...
...next blockbuster beverage and that the company is testing in nine cities from Boston to Seattle. With OK's deliberately drab cans and pseudo-Zen profundities ("What's the point of OK soda? Well, what's the point of anything?"), Coke hopes to capture a generation that is both anxious about its adult-size problems and inoculated against pitches from having grown up with television jingles at breakfast...