Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN A YARD full of frenzied freshmen feels compelled to conduct sham polls of housing choices and spread anxious rumors about people being "Quincied," it signals loudly that something has gone profoundly wrong with the way Harvard runs its housing system...
Greene, who will be diving in her first NCAA meet, is looking forward to this weekend but remains slightly nervous about competing. "I'm a little anxious to see the level of diving in the meet," Greene said, "but am still very happy to be going...
...Vaux said she is not surprised at the rapidly increasing interest in the Cambridge area. "People are anxious to get back to where the action is. There is a certain Cambridge mystique; people who have a sense of it don't want to live anywhere else," she said...
...value of the U.S. dollar seemed to be going into orbit. While American consumers enjoyed cheap imports and luxuriated in foreign travel bargains, U.S. manufacturers complained bitterly that they were being clobbered by overseas competitors. But early last year the dollar bailed out, with a slight push from anxious international moneymen. At first the decline was a gentle drift, but it is now showing signs of becoming a free fall. Since December the dollar has dropped by 19% against the Japanese yen and 8% against the West German mark. It dipped last week below 180 yen for the first time...
Sitting more or less alone in his suite at a luxury hotel in the French lakeside resort of Talloires, Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier remained a tyrant without a country. France's government, waging an uphill battle to win legislative elections next month, is anxious indeed to unload the former Haitian dictator. With here's-your-hat bluntness, Prime Minister Laurent Fabius snapped, "We want him to leave as quickly as possible." The U.S., which provided a military transport to fly Duvalier and his entourage into exile three weeks ago, refuses to give Baby Doc asylum. Liberia, the only nation...