Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realist film, Places in the Heart, are perhaps inevitable. While both movies depict a family's struggle to hold on to its land in the face of greedy bureaucracy, Places uses this struggle as a tool to develop plot and character. Country, on the other hand, in its overly anxious attempt to convey a political message, fails to give any depth to its characters and leaves us mere ideology in the place...
...Avenue expressas many opnions as there are new condominiums in the desirable neighborhood. Michael Magruder, a resident of 1572 Massachusetts Avenue, called Doyle "very agreeable and open to discussion." At the commission's October 4 meeting, he said "we think we can live with the development plan and are anxious to see the matter resolved as soon as possible...
...level Sicilian mobster and ally of Buscetta's, was gunned down as he hid in a farmhouse 30 miles from Palermo. Some Italian law enforcement officials interpreted the murder as a warning to Buscetta and to anyone else who might be tempted to talk. There was anxious speculation that the upheaval caused by Buscetta's revelations could produce a new round of all-out bloodletting...
Other workers, especially younger ones who have only recently returned from layoffs or who had large house payments to meet, were less anxious to walk the picket line. U.A.W. members could get just $85 a week in strike benefits and are ineligible for government unemployment payments. The average weekly salary for union members is now $506.80, and they can often earn much more with overtime. Al Manzie, 33, is a grinder at Chevrolet's gear-and-axle plant in Detroit. He has not had a raise in two years and has been laid off four times in the past...
...streets abound with anxious sports fans (I wonder how Baker Field will hold them all), and you can't find a parking space anywhere in Manhattan...