Word: anxious
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...budget action pictures aren't. Penn says he is offered such films "here and there" and turns them down, though it's not the money he objects to. "I'm as anxious as anybody to find a cup at the end of the rainbow. You think of what you could do, not only in your work but also in your life and in other people's lives. But the Hollywood action picture of the past 20 years takes advantage of a very comfort-addicted audience base and puts them in a kind of hero dream. It says...
...scoured the globe in search of Saddam Hussein's legendary fortune. Now they think they have found a big chunk. According to a U.S. estimate, as much as $3 billion in Iraqi assets is sitting in Syrian government--controlled banks, a senior U.S. official tells TIME, and Washington is anxious to determine that the money is not funding violence against Americans in Iraq, or being drawn down by regime officials and supporters...
...Didn’t colleges just win a Supreme Court case preserving affirmative action by convincing justices of the value of diversity? Aren’t students from different backgrounds with different interests supposed to learn from each other? And if so, then why is the Ivy League so anxious to make sure that recruited athletes just like everybody else...
...approval rating is 38%, the lowest point of his 16-month tenure, down from a high of 63% last December. So you might expect the Prime Minister - tasked with running domestic policy while President Jacques Chirac plays diplomatic chess with George W. Bush - to be feeling a little anxious himself. It's not just his popularity that's taking a beating. The French government recently announced that the economy shrank by 0.3% in the second quarter, and in August unemployment figures started creeping up again. The government is still reeling from accusations that it bungled the response to the summer...
...given how helpful he's being, we're slowly prepared to concede that Mr. Truong is not a spook after all. As it turns out, he's not even a Party member. He's just an anxious guy with unfortunate hair. He also doesn't know how to work a manual clutch-though he never admits to it. Our Vietnamese colleague Mai, tired after six days on the road, asks him to ride her Minsk while she takes the jeep. The going is particularly mountainous, and heading uphill Mr. Truong keeps getting stuck between gears. We pass him several times...