Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show of strength was also a reminder of the dangers that confront Saudi Arabia, a fabulously wealthy kingdom that sits atop the largest proven oil reserves on earth. Faced with plunging revenues at home and increasingly ominous military threats abroad, the Saudis are passing through anxious times. Declared King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz last month in a nationwide address: "We are surrounded by the most critical conditions we have ever faced...
...think [the program] is an excellent idea and am anxious to see how it will work out in practice," said Hendrik S. Houthakker, Lee Professor of Economics. Houthakker and graduate student Robert N. Stavins will teach "Consumer Behavior" this fall, presenting the theory and practice of consumer demand analysis...
...concern about any deal whatsoever between the Philippine government and the Communists. "We are very skeptical about the N.P.A.'s sincerity," said a State Department official. On the whole, the Reagan Administration was relieved that Aquino's interim constitution brought an end to weeks of deliberation, but remained anxious about the problems ahead. "Mrs. Aquino was able to sweep aside the vestiges of Marcos' structure with a pen," observed a State Department official, "but how things get done is not yet clear...
...their own hyperambitious goals to children. Irving Sigel, distinguished research scientist at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., asks, "What happens to kids' sense of self when they're valued only for achievement?" According to Marion Blum, of the Wellesley Child Study Center, hothousing may create "very nervous, anxious children afraid of failure and risk taking...
...When China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping appeared at a lunar New Year's celebration in early February, his right eye, which is often half closed, drooped shut completely. Then the 81-year-old Deng, who had just returned from six weeks in seclusion, again disappeared from public view. Anxious Chinese citizens and China watchers began to fear that his health had taken a serious turn for the worse...