Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enthusiasm for art, the City often finds itself arbitrating among contrasting opinions of how a particular project should look. Willie Hills, another art council member, explains that "because the art is going to appear in a public place. We always want to get community input, but likewise we are anxious to allow the artist some freedom of expression." The Commission itself seeks what Hills calls" good, [but] not always the most well-known artists...
Though Clark had been pressed upon Haig by the Reagan circle, the two developed a solid relationship. Haig, while ever anxious to protect his own turf, has even shown some deference to his recent subordinate. Officials calling on Clark get an instant reminder of why such protocol is prudent. The first ornament striking a visitor's eye is a large photograph dating from 1968 of three smiling men on horseback: Clark, his father and Ronald Reagan...
...electing up to a dozen new members in 1980, supporters will find it easier to force floor debates and to cut off the filibusters threatened by liberal Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. But the moral crusaders may discover that many of the freshmen they helped elect are now less anxious to do battle for conservative social causes than they were when they were on the campaign trail. Says Senator James Abdnor of South Dakota, who defeated Democrat George McGovern partly by stressing social issues: "I resent that the New Right says they elected me. I'm not part...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, one of the Administration's principal proponents of declaring default, has reportedly argued that increasing the credit burden on Moscow might slow construction of a proposed $15 billion natural-gas pipeline from the Soviet Union to Western Europe. The U.S. is anxious to scuttle the pipeline because it would make Western Europe dependent on the U.S.S.R. for vital energy...
Richard Neidinger, an investigator with the board, says his office is anxious to discipline convicted doctors more efficiently but is bogged down by the lengthy administrative process and underfunding. "If [a doctor] is convicted of something serious enough, we would try to get that license." But although" you see physicians getting convicted of felonies in the paper all the time," he says, "not a whole lot" actually have their licenses revoked--thanks to a lengthy review process in which the doctor under investigation can take all sorts of time to "go out and get the biggest legal guns in town...