Word: anxious
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...complying with the UN resolution, Saddam could certainly make life difficult for Washington hawks set on an invasion to achieve regime change in Iraq - and strengthen the hand of those in the U.S., Europe and the Arab world opposed to war. Washington hawks are more than a little anxious at the extent to which the Bush Administration has been yoked to a UN inspection timetable that could, if Saddam avoids overt confrontation, drag matters on into next February, and even then not produce a definitive case for a UN-sanctioned war. The neo-conservative flagship Weekly Standard warns that absent...
Interrogations portrays a community of immigrants anxious about succeeding in their adopted land and reluctant to publicly discuss such sensitive issues as domestic violence. “Do we want the mayor’s wife to think all Indian men are savages?” one character demands, having been asked to give time to a domestic violence advocacy group during an Indian cultural celebration...
...Tatar who had originally said that the idea of “abolishing” the Core made her anxious, said that as the evening progressed the number of arguments raised against the Core led her to question whether it could be saved...
...take credit for pushing the Bush Administration to working through the United Nations. Chirac's insistence has put him at the head of European countries worried about unilateralism in Washington. But there's more to Chirac's diplomacy than concern for the U.N.'s authority. On Iraq, Paris is anxious to bolster its political and economic position in the Middle East. French companies have considerable investments in Iraq, including in the oil industry. In Europe, too, Chirac is equally adept at playing the statesman and defender of the national wealth. He thwarted efforts to reform the cap, and when Blair...
Nevertheless, according to Berkeley, it is not the UOS office but the land that is yet to be developed that makes the Allston community anxious...