Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecution suggests that Sunny was planning to divorce Von Bülow over his infidelity and that he was anxious not to lose her money. Defense lawyers dismiss this as a possible motive, though they concede that the marriage had foundered and that Von Bülow had had an affair, reportedly with New York City Socialite Alexandra Isles, a sometime actress who appeared in the television gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. They contend that Sunny was a pathologically shy woman, who assuaged her demons with alcohol, drugs and compulsive eating, and either deliberately or accidentally caused the coma through...
Haig also received a warm welcome in Jerusalem, where Israeli officials seemed anxious to forget the strains of the recent past. Haig spent two hours with Menachem Begin at the Prime Minister's official residence. Quipped an obviously pleased Begin, who fractured his left hip two months ago: "I'm delighted that the talks have got off on the right foot, because my left foot is still weak...
...France for the purchase of 20 advanced Mirage 2000 jet fighters. The decision pleased neither Israel, which does not look with favor on arms purchases by any Arab state, nor the U.S., which would have preferred that Egypt buy American when it modernizes its outmoded arsenal. Mubarak presumably is anxious to broaden the base of the country's arms purchases. The Mirage deal is an opportunity for Mubarak to avoid becoming completely dependent on U.S. aircraft...
Confusion was indeed Wall Street's theme as the bellwether first trading sessions of 1982 unfolded last week. Like an anxious mountain climber midway up a steep cliff, the stock market cautiously tried a slight advance last Monday. But then vertigo took over. On Tuesday, brokers' telephones lit up with customer sell orders that drove the Dow Jones industrial index down 17 points, the market's worst one-day slide in four months...
...while many traders seemed anxious to sell last week, there were still buyers aplenty for one category of stocks-companies whose shares hold speculative promise because they are prime takeover targets. Wall Street's merger mania accounted for some $80 billion in stock market trading during 1981. Some experts believe that takeover speculation by professional arbitragers, traders who try to buy merger stocks low and sell them high, and the takeover adventurists among the general public account for up to 25% of current trading...