Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart did not seem anxious to pave the way for party unity when he appeared in Washington before Ferraro's platform committee. Although Hart did not mention Mondale, he urged the committee to reject "the traditional approach of some in our party who promise everything to everyone." He warned that "the Democratic Party cannot win if it is beholden to the old arrangements." Specifically, Hart opposed "a protectionist trade policy based on the proposed domestic content bill," which would require a share of American materials and labor in autos sold in the U.S. Mondale has firmly endorsed such legislation...
Helicoptered to San José, the guerrilla leader was taken to the city's most exclusive hospital. His men immediately turned Pastora's floor of the Clinica Biblica into a fortress, sealing off elevators and stationing heavily armed guards in the stairwells. Costa Rican authorities, anxious about their country's neutral status, placed Pastora in government custody; on Friday he was flown on a stretcher to Venezuela...
While the Andean country's borrowings are dwarfed by those of such neighbors as Brazil ($96 billion) and Argentina ($43.6 billion), the Bolivian action nonetheless shook moneymen. Phone calls from anxious foreigners flooded embassies, newspapers and government agencies in the capital city of La Paz. On Wall Street, prices slid further on a bond market still edgy over last month's near collapse of Chicago's Continental Illinois...
...question comes up of what exactly this decentralized network--which professors and administrators describe as inevitable--will look like. A number of institutions--principally Brown, MIT, and Carnegie-Mellon--have already sunk millions into wiring their campuses. Harvard has preferred, however, to take a wait-and-see attitude, anxious about the logistical difficulties of the move and fearful of technological obsolence...
...Harvard was anxious to be a symbol of academic freedom to other universities. A secret record of cooperation with the FBI makes the symbol hollow," said Sigmond Diamond, a professor of history and sociology at Columbia University who has been embroiled in a debate about Harvard's actions during the McCarthy period since he began writing about it in 1977. Diamond has a significant personal interest: he received his Ph.D. here in 1953 and a year later was offered the position of Dean of Special Students by then-Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy...