Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tired eyes to look up. As parents arrive to pick up their kids, Katie quickly looks up to see if it is her mom or dad. Most kids have a pretty good feeling for what time their parents normally appear, so when a parent is late, a child becomes anxious...
Democrats are anxious to show the nation a united party. And they're eager to bash George Bush and the Republicans on prime-time TV. And when they're not sounding out inflammatory oratory, there's plenty to keep them occupied...
NASA's more immediate concern is proving that it can get Discovery safely into space and back again. Most Americans, who will be watching on launch day, are just as anxious as NASA to see the shuttle program back in orbit...
Such dramatic revisions in the GNP, retail sales figures and other important statistics occur with maddening regularity. "The numbers are not bad," says Sidney Jones, professor of public policy at Georgetown University. "They are just premature." But the Government is under pressure from anxious investors and executives to report economic data as soon as possible. Observes Robert Ortner, the Commerce Department's Under Secretary for Economic Affairs: "If you want something quickly, you give up something." In this case, accuracy...
...evening of October 19--the day the stock market took its worst beating ever--an anxious senior called the analysts with whom he had worked the previous summer to find out the word on the Street. Though it was long after the market had closed, the would-be investment banker found that his friends were still at the offices of Bear Stearns & Co.--trying to make sense of Black Monday...