Word: anxious
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard seniors anxious about securing a job, at least one new position has opened up: managing Britney Spears’ Facebook page...
...Despite the increasingly anxious calls from abroad for a halt to the fighting, the war has acquired its own momentum - and civilian casualties are rising in a death toll now close to 700. Red Cross workers, who after days of trying finally gained access to the badly hit Zeitoun neighborhood on Thursday, say they discovered "four small children next to their dead mothers in one of the houses. They were too weak to stand up on their own. In all, there were at least 12 corpses lying on mattresses." An Israeli army position was only 87 yards (80 m) away...
...Decker said she certainly is “not looking to harm services,” and pointed out that her entire family receives health care at the CHA even though she has the financial means to go elsewhere. Decker criticized councilors for being “more anxious about making hospital administrators nervous about losing dollars than about the services that we do know today we’re losing.” She questioned the CHA’s closure of the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center in December—which she said forces the elderly...
...Anxious guests are choosing to stay away, and industry associations say room occupancy in the large cities is down to 60% occupancy, even as room rates are being pared down by as much as 25%. According to event managers in Mumbai and New Delhi, many Christmas and New Year's bashes at leading hotels have either been cancelled or scaled down. "We've seen 30% to 40% cancellations for New Year's eve in our Goa property," says Anjali M. Chatterjee of Bharat Hotels, who run the Lalit Goa Resort, "Usually there's a spike in bookings for December...
With recent administrative calls for budget-trimming, staff in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been clinging to their jobs in apprehension, anxious that they are particularly vulnerable in a new era of cost-cutting. Many staffers interviewed by The Crimson expressed concern that the hiring freeze on all FAS staff posts announced three weeks ago was an administrative effort to resuscitate the endowment that did not fully consider the impact on staff. “To me, this place always had the feel of an investment bank as opposed to an institution of higher education...