Word: anxious
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Well that?s why I don?t get anxious about that. The point of it all was to create opportunities for the filmmakers and that?s happened. So if they get their work sold, great. In the end the choice is not ours, the choice is the filmmaker?s and the public?s as to what they want to do with it all. As long as we keep producing new, fresh, work; which we will...
...plane descended to a veritable horde of emergency vehicles, lights flashing in anxious anticipation, I realized what the whole world except for the passengers on board flight 210 knew: the plane—and our lives—had been in serious danger the whole time. Following a quick tow to the deserted gate, Midwest graciously wined and dined its inconvenienced passengers, put us up in the airport Hilton, and offered us two “unrestricted” round trip ticket vouchers to anywhere Midwest Airlines flies. Which, by the way, is not just the mid-west...
...drawbacks and even some side effects: impatience, irritability and (gasp) some inefficiency. "Sometimes when e-mail goes down, I'm actually more productive, because I can concentrate on something," she says. She finds herself angry and snappish when callers make poor use of her endless availability. Although she feels anxious when her In box is empty, she feels no better when it's full: "When I wake up in the morning and have 15 e-mails, I get a nervous stomach...
...feedback loop is dominated by fear?fear of failure, fear of disappointing teammates, fear of being unworthy?the circuit starts to resemble the classic fight-or-flight response. In the perform-or-perish version, anxious thoughts trigger the release of adrenaline, the hormone that sets the heart racing, primes the muscles to run and puts all the senses on alert. The eyes slip into tunnel vision?the last thing a quarter-back needs when he's relying on peripheral perception to spot a waiting receiver...
...real nightmare,” said Nicholas H. Ma ’05. “Once you’re inside, it’s not as bad.” Undergraduates from the region who were planning to head home to New York were anxious about the strike’s affects on their travel. “It’s going to be completely crippling,” said Sarah A. Sherman ’09. “New York City as we know depends really heavily on public transports and if cabs aren?...