Word: anxious
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...debate over maintaining China's normal trading partner status, the decision over where to hold the Olympic Games in 2008. That gives both sides very little time to put the spy plane issue behind them before President Bush is due to visit China in the fall. Chinese leaders are anxious to see the Bush administration move from campaign rhetoric to realpolitik, allowing both sides to break the impasse in the relationship rather than letting it languish. Because Beijing is entering a very complicated transition period, in which its leaders are going to find it hard to take bold decisions...
Jordan has nothing left to prove to anyone in basketball. He doesn’t need to return and play into the hands of the younger generation that will be anxious to show...
...people they stop. But two weeks later, Cincinnati's streets were littered with the familiar iconography of failure: fiery Dumpsters, splintered storefronts and citizens sitting on the curb, weeping from tear gas. Police in riot gear ringed city hall, and Mayor Charlie Luken appeared on TV--shaken and anxious--to announce a strict curfew. While many American cities wrestle with the same slippery problems, Cincinnati had become a model of racial injustice...
...specialist in anxiety disorders, I have found it most effective to meet the parents of an anxious child and work with them first. As parents feel less threatened, they communicate a less fearful attitude, and many children do not need treatment directly. A parent who feels confident about his ability to deal with what comes up is more likely to have a child who feels the same way. This does not deny the individual temperamental differences each of us has from birth, but it is important to be aware of how parents influence their children. LILI ENDLICH Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...what constitutes good care, whether in the home or outside it? What is the healthiest way for children to spend their time, especially in the years before school soaks up most of the day? Many anxious parents, wanting the best for their children and willing to pay for it, fill their kids' days with oboe lessons and karate classes, their rooms with phonics tapes and smart toys. And yet if you ask the experts to name the most precious thing you can provide your child, they often cite things you cannot buy: time and attention, the appreciation that play...