Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...encourage innovative ideas from rank-and-file employees, and experiment constantly to improve their products and services. Notes Waterman: "Our book was saying, 'Look, America, you're not so bad after all. Indeed, you've got some companies that are doing just great.' People were anxious to hear that...
...would reinforce the journalists' counterattack: it drew 83 participants, vs. 63 in 1981, and included news organizations from the U.S., most of Western Europe, Japan and countries as diverse as Finland, India and Peru. Said Jean Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to the agency: "This makes UNESCO a little less anxious to take a confrontational tone." Still, Gerard believes that the agency has not sufficiently recognized the value of unregulated coverage: the U.S. will propose next month that UNESCO agree that a free press stimulates economic growth and that the press is the best "watchdog" of itself...
...Kevin White had run again, unsavory reputation and all, corruption might have been the loudest campaign refrain. But White stepped down, and the other primary candidates, anxious not to alienate his supporters, rarely mentioned this central flaw of city government. The patronage machinery may be one of the biggest prizes of the contest. But the press follows along. No one asks what is future of machine politics--and why so few of the candidates feel the need to run against it. Boston is losing the chance to know itself...
Wright finished his work in 1920. He was in Los Angeles when the big quake hit Tokyo three years later. After ten days of anxious waiting, Wright learned by cable that the building had ridden out the quake unharmed while other modern buildings were shaking their masonry into the streets...
...orbiting command module and the lunar module emerged from behind the moon, having undocked while they were out of radio communication, an anxious capsule commentator in Houston inquired: "How does it look?" Replied Armstrong: "The Eagle has wings." The lunar module was on its own, ready for its landing on the moon...