Word: anxious
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...child welfare offices during fiscal 2005, more than 30 times the total in 1990. Critics say that Japan's social welfare services are too passive, doing too little to head off crises until it's too late. Shortcut solutions like Jikei Hospital's stork cradle are more common, giving anxious parents an anonymous out rather than providing them with meaningful support. But an increasingly budget-conscious government doesn't appear eager to allocate the necessary funding. "The child consultation services are very understaffed and suffering hard," says Saimura...
...tight end found himself instead in the general manager’s office signing himself into what he hopes will be an NFL career. “Now I’m excited,” Farbotko said. “I’m not so much anxious anymore, now I know what to expect, I know what camp’s like, now it’s just more [thinking] ‘I’ve got to get down to business.’ It’s a job now, it?...
...excited,” Farbotko said. “I’m not so much anxious anymore. Now I know what to expect, I know what camp’s like. Now it’s just more of I’ve got to get down to business. It’s a job now, it’s how I’m going to make my living, so I need to do well...
...What Iraq needed were Arabists and Foreign Service officers who understood the country's tribal allegiances, or who at least knew a Sunni from a Shia. What CPA seemed to be getting were people anxious to set up a Baghdad stock exchange, try out a flat-tax system, and impose other elements of a lab-school democratic- capitalist social structure. One of my officers returned from a trip to Iraq a month or two after CPA had taken over and told me, "Boss, that place runs like a graduate school seminar, none of them speaks Arabic, almost nobody's ever...
...important, but long-term size and agility will be more important.As for where Farbotko stands on this weekend, he will take a more relaxed approach, watching with high school friends as months of work come to a head.“I think I’m more anxious than nervous, just because all of us have been training since early December and it’s all coming to an end now,” he says. “I’ll be relieved on Monday morning, that’s for sure...