Word: anxious
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Treasury-bond investors are an anxious bunch these days. They've had a great run. But most know the value of their bonds and bond funds will slide when interest rates rise again. At the same time, these investors want more than ever the steady income offered by interest-paying securities--yet many would rather not gamble on high-yield junk bonds. What...
He’ll be anxious, he says, as he sits by the phone on the couch. Then again, at least he’ll be sitting down—it’ll be one of the few days off he’s had in a while...
Professor of Government Carol R. Saivetz who worked with Pring-Wilson in her capacity as executive director of AAASS, described Pring-Wilson as “a really, all-around good kid” who was “anxious to go back home to do his law degree...
...having section in the first place. Students, understandably keen to get the high grades which they feel they deserve, focus more on demonstrating that they have done the reading than on analyzing the texts or offering their own opinions on the subject. Discussions are further straight-jacketed by anxious TFs who feel that they need to cover every reading in order to get a fair picture of which students have actually done all the work and which ones have large gaps in their knowledge...
...weather was suitable for a race farther down the Charles. Ivy League restrictions limit the number of races each team can schedule and, as the Black and White already has the maximum, it could not legally divide Saturday’s regatta into two separate races. The team, anxious for its contest against Brown to count, decided that its race against Penn on Saturday would not be an official competition, but instead a scrimmage. The length of the race was also reduced from the normal two kilometers to 1250 meters. Although no official times were kept, Radcliffe handily beat Penn...