Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time charged on, and still the Faculty hadn't voted. Rudenstine was getting anxious that Harvard would never vote. Although the ultimate decision on ROTC lay with Rudenstine and the Corporation, he wanted public support before he simply made a unilateral decision against the program. Time, Rudenstine thought, to take action...
There was some evidence at CVS in Harvard Square yesterday that some anxious customers were taking the results of the study, which have received a large amount of media attention, directly to heart...
...obvious what at least some of the verdicts would be as soon as the jury filed in at 7:05 a.m. Several women jurors were dressed in their Sunday best; all the jurors looked self-satisfied and all kept their eyes away from the four defendants. An anxious city and nation listened as court clerk Jim Holmes began to read, in a practiced drone, the verdict the jurors had just handed Judge John Davies. How did the panel find on the charge that police sergeant Stacey Koon "did willfully permit" the savage beating of Rodney King by three other cops...
...this instance, unit management's ability to react to things was breaking down," Berry said. "The person kept coming to me and I finally said, listen I'm anxious to try to help you but you need to use your local manager because you've got to give them a chance to solve the problem...
...military keenly anxious about its shrinking role in the post-cold war era, every presidential gesture is dissected and analyzed, sometimes absurdly so. It grates that Clinton has spent only one weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat run by the Navy. Military officers charge that Clinton has fewer veterans on his staff than any President in memory. Then there are the rumored slights, both real and imagined: a woman believed to be a member of the White House staff refused to speak to a top aide of Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell (true); Chelsea Clinton refused a military escort...