Word: anxious
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...Germany to build a natural gas pipeline that punitively bypasses Poland—the Baltic gas pipeline, placing Warsaw in a precarious economic and political position. But no one heard any complaints from Poland’s EU partners about this frosty Baltic revenge, since they are all anxious customers of Russian natural...
...midst of all this rich success, did 67.6% of Japanese respond to a recent Cabinet Office survey by saying that they felt anxious about their daily lives-the highest angst level recorded since the poll began nearly 40 years ago? Perhaps because they're looking beyond the next club opening or quarterly report, toward a national future that is anything but certain. Despite the country's economic recovery, Japan is still pinned beneath $6.9 trillion in public debt, and that's 1.5 times the nation's GDP, the worst ratio in the industrialized world. A widening gap between rich...
...science historian Charles Rosenberg, told her, “Knock ’em dead.” She walked to the door alone.While the board members listened to the Radcliffe dean make her case yesterday, a gaggle of reporters and Town Car chauffeurs congregated on Quincy Street in anxious and somewhat less anxious anticipation, respectively.Cuisine Chez Vous delivered sustenance to the board members through a side door, but an employee fended off questions about the meeting inside.“I can’t talk to anyone,” the caterer told a reporter while ferrying trays...
...crash survivors marooned on a mysterious island in the South Pacific. “It’s kind of astonishing,” said Cuse of the show’s popularity among critics and viewers. However, the show’s producers came under heavy criticism by anxious viewers for their decision to air just six episodes this past fall. “It was not a smart decision,” said Cuse. “Those six episodes couldn’t be everything everyone wanted.” But Cuse assures even the most hard...
...upbeat syncopation of 80’s pop and the purloined Beatles hooks combine to create something that, while enjoyable, still sounds too much like something (perhaps everything) else. “7 Stars” is good, but too familiar to be great. Ultimately, one of those anxious fans just needs to tell Schneider to stop wasting time creating scales and instead start working on what he does best—pure old power pop. —Reviewer Kimberly E. Gittleson can be reached at gittles@fas.harvard.edu...