Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little after 1 p.m. Saturday, couple #1305 joins more than 100 dancers on the floor of the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts, anxious to begin at this ridiculously early hour...
...December of last year, President Reagan ran a five-cent-a-gallon increase in the gas tax through a lame duck Congress anxious to melt out of Washington for the Christmas holidays. The tax, which was signed into law on January 6, is designed both to raise more than $5 billion a year to rebuild the nation's crumbling highways and bridges, and to aid mass transportation. Coupled with the rise in the tax on fuel are increases in taxes on truck parts, truck road use, and truck sales. From the point of view of the American Trucking Association...
...University is anxious to complete financing of the plant within the next six months in order to capitalize on a drop in interest rates that Putnam predicted will only last six months In addition. Putnam has expressed fears that state laws governing tax free bonds may change later this year...
...turns in the plot occur with mechanical regularity and at dizzying speed. The cheapening effect they produce is heightened by tired cliches--false hair which falls off, embarrassing its owner; the villain's stupid bodyguard who is anxious for bloody 'action': the blonde who turns out to be not so very dumb. And neither the direction nor the performance adds anything to make these standard gags more palatable...
...archives has also received several requests for premature release from historians anxious to examine files from the 1950s, to investigate allegations that the University threatened to cut off fellowships and blocked promised administrative appointments to former Communists...