Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes to the gun. People were getting anxious. Two people in front of me were speaking a language I had never heard before. Some people began to clap their hands. I looked in the air and counted nine helicopters and two blimps. The excitement was building...
...Lauro affair emerged last week, providing answers to, and fresh questions about, what really happened during the six-day crisis. From the returning passengers and crew came a vivid account of the horror aboard the Italian cruise ship. Marilyn Klinghoffer, 59, returning home to New York City, recalled the anxious hours she spent on an upper deck with machine guns pointed at her head. The hijackers, she recounted, "kept popping their guns and playing with grenades on their belts, like little kids." Falsely told by the terrorists that her husband was in the ship's infirmary, she tried to sneak...
...banks lent millions of dollars to oil and real estate businesses. Then in the early 1980s many of the banks' loans turned sour. Together the two banks controlled only about 1% of all Canadian bank assets, so the fallout from their failures was limited. But investors are anxious about the safety of smaller banks...
...quite different fate. Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo had offered to buy 60% of the outstanding stock of Frontier Holdings, the airline's parent company, for $20 a share, topping a $17-a-share bid made by four of Frontier's five unions. Frontier's employees, though, were anxious to avoid dealing with Lorenzo, whom they consider anti-union. In 1981, he bought Continental Airlines and two years later declared bankruptcy in order to get out of costly union contracts. In August, TWA's unions joined forces with Corporate Raider Carl Icahn to block Lorenzo's attempt to take over...
...departure of the wiry, chain-smoking D'Aubuisson was announced at the annual party congress in San Salvador. It was engineered, according to one ARENA loyalist, by party leaders anxious to project a "more palatable image." D'Aubuisson was replaced by Alfredo Cristiani, a 37-year-old graduate of Georgetown University's business school who has held prominent posts in El Salvador's coffee and cotton growers' associations...