Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spectators; it will whisk visitors comfortably from their downtown hotels to event sites. Restaurants and hotels around the capital have been refurbished. About 100,000 Korean volunteers have signed up to serve as guides, translators and stadium workers. As this week's disturbances have painfully illustrated, the government is anxious about security. That concern will be heavily on display at the Games. Uniformed policemen and military counterterrorist squads will be deployed at Olympic sites...
...Psychologists next began to look at more typical settings. The analysis of the strange-situation test changed, placing less emphasis on the child's reaction to the stranger than on its attitude toward the returning mother. Some initial results were unsettling. Day-care children were more likely to remain anxious even after the parent had come back. Some actively avoided their mother. Last September in a report published in the journal Zero to Three, Belsky reversed his earlier position. He concluded that babies who spend more than 20 hours a week in nonmaternal care during the first year of life...
...their differences, church and state in Poland have long realized that a certain amount of cooperation is in both their interests. Jaruzelski is anxious to gain the legitimacy of diplomatic recognition by the Vatican, which was withdrawn shortly after the Communists came to power in 1948. To that end he has permitted the construction of 1,400 new churches since 1981. However, Roman Catholic officials are holding out for much more than that, including recognition of the church's formal status in Poland's constitution. The papal visit was a reminder that the church's bargaining position on such matters...
...fully aware of all that. He knows that playing politics with the economy could be disastrous. Preserving financial stability during these uncertain and jittery times would have been difficult enough for Paul Volcker, and it will be doubly daunting for Alan Greenspan as he proves his mettle to anxious moneymen around the world...
...returning alumni, Sean E. Tierney '62 of Laguna, California, said yesterday, "I've been looking forward to it for a long time." He registered yesterday with his wife and their two children. While Tierney said he was anxious to visit with old friends, his eight-year-old daughter, Katie, said she was looking forward to the circus trip planned by child-care organizers. "I've never been to a circus," she said...