Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas, anxious depositors withdrew $447 million during the first half of the year from the First National Bank of Midland (assets: $1.5 billion), whose loans to oil and gas producers turned sour. Earlier this month, the bank reported a second-quarter loss of $109.3 million. Many banks are now teetering on the brink of collapse. At the end of July, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation listed 540 "problem" banks, ranging from small state-chartered ones with too many weak agricultural loans to nationally chartered banks with bad business loans. Among the 540, the FDIC secretly lists dozens as likely...
...amniocentesis usually cannot be done until the 16th or 17th week of pregnancy, when there is enough amniotic fluid to obtain a sample safely via a needle through the abdomen. Results are not available for another four weeks. Eager to avoid five months of anxious waiting, the two women volunteered for a new, early test of fetal health, under study at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. Fisher had the procedure in her ninth week "and found out the next day that my baby did not have Tay-Sachs." Roehl also got good news, fast...
Hanging over the bargaining is AT&T's impending breakup. To settle an antitrust suit, AT&T's local operating companies will spin off into seven independent regional units next Jan. 1. Because of uncertainty over how profitable each will be, both labor and management seemed anxious to strike the best deal they could before the divestiture occurs...
...modesty, but he would have a hard time denying that he is the nation's pre-eminent baby doctor. A whole generation of pediatricians has studied and worked with him at Harvard Medical School and the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. Tens of thousands of anxious parents have been reassured by his easygoing guidebooks (Infants and Mothers, Toddlers and Parents, Doctor and Child, On Becoming a Family). Millions of infants who never met him have been tested and evaluated by his Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, generally known simply and naturally as the Brazelton...
Like Spock, Brazelton makes it a cardinal rule to reassure anxious parents and to encourage them to trust their instincts. "Parents in our culture are so hungry for people to tell them what to do and so vulnerable as a result," he says. "I feel very strongly that telling them what to do is destructive. Supporting them for what they can do is constructive...