Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buzz of boardrooms, power lunches and anxious phone calls from the freeway. It was debated by stockbrokers, real estate agents, Hollywood producers and media Bigfeet. Mid-level executives who wouldn't leave home without a phone in their pocket -- or at their ear -- were putting off calls or finding other ways to make them. Sales of cellular radio telephones -- which had been growing at a sizzling 20% to 70% a year for the past decade -- were temporarily put on hold...
...latest cases will test a city that today has a new police chief, a new district attorney and at least 52 candidates for mayor. Yet in the streets the frustration and despair that helped trigger last year's violence show little change. "People are anxious about these trials," says Karen Bass, director of a substance-abuse center with headquarters in South Central. "There is sentiment that the lid could blow off again because people don't feel that their concerns are being addressed. No one wants to see the same thing happen again, but it is a real possibility. People...
...People were anxious," Fox said yesterday. "there was more concern and more interest because relatively small changes in the performance of the endowment have quite a significant effect on the Faculty's financial well-being...
...most recent financial report was a cause for concern," Fox said. "If we have another year [of below average performance], not just faculty members will be anxious...
...Maimonis arranged to hold the party in Lowell's F-entry on January 11. Maimonis, who had conducted a party in Canaday earlier in the year, was anxious to participate...