Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anxious Deputies milled in the corridors. "My conscience tells me to vote for impeachment," said a well-dressed Moscow representative, "but I have my managerial position to consider." Another claimed, "The majority is on our side." But, the Deputy wondered, "how can our thousand-member Congress rule Russia?" Surveying the scene, a Russian journalist observed, "It's scary. If they vote in favor of impeachment, how are they going to enforce it? Secondly, they are not sure of the people's support." In Paris, Pierre Hassner, research director of the University of Paris Political Science Foundation, put it more sharply...
...really long indoor season and we're all very anxious to get outside," sophomore Elizabeth Walker said. "We're extremely excited for the trip...
...Victim, or as Victim's Representative. The key to the show, the skeptic might say, is its inclusion of the tape of the police bashing of Rodney King taken by George Holliday, a plumbing-parts salesman not known for his artistic aspirations before or since. The '93 Biennial is anxious to present all its artists as witnesses, just like Holliday. Witnesses to what? To their own feelings of exclusion and marginalization. To a world made bad for blacks, Latinos, gays, lesbians and women in general. It's one big fiesta of whining agitprop, in the midst of which...
South Korea offered to repatriate Li In Mo in a peace gesture made the day before North Korea withdrew from the nuclear control pact. Seoul's willingness to go ahead with the meeting suggested it was anxious to maintain a dialogue with the North despite the pullout...
Though he said he was "not 100% anxious" to provide Hitler with a bomb, Heisenberg never claimed he blocked the program out of moral compunctions. This book asserts he did: "He killed it," Powers writes. It is a line of argument that has always upset Manhattan Project scientists because it suggests that Germans who worked for the Nazis struck a superior moral stance. Readers need not agree with Powers. He provides plenty of evidence and argument on all sides of the issue...