Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anxious are the networks to exorcise these ghosts from seasons past that last week they petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to restore to them the syndication rights that the FCC had awarded to the series' producers in 1970. The networks argue that without the revenue from syndication it will be more difficult to commission adventurous, expensive programming. The producers counter that the licensing fee the networks pay for two airings of a series often does not cover production costs (more than $750,000 for an hour show, $400,000 for a half-hour). The profits from syndication do, though...
Unfortunately, the very issues about which Naylor writes with profound clarity prove one of the novel's greatest downfalls. She wants to write about so many issues that at times she seems anxious to squeeze in at least a one-line comment about every contemporary social issue. At a moment when the protagonist of one story is on her knees, paralyzed with fear and horror before six youths who are about to rape her, Naylor takes time out to comment on the problems of the rapists...
Prime Minister Nakasone was a particularly welcome visitor to Washington. His willingness to make the trip scarcely eight weeks after he had assumed office was interpreted as a sign that the Japanese are anxious to preserve their 30-year friendship with the U.S. Two weeks ago, in preparation for the Prime Minister's tour, his government reduced nontariff barriers on a number of relatively unimportant U.S. imports. Nakasone also moved decisively to ease tensions over defense policy. He inserted a modest increase in defense spending into his otherwise austere national budget, and he ended a 15-year...
...Reagan Administration was anxious to give Nakasone a chance to live up to his reputation as a personable, resolutely pro-American politician. So the strategy last week was to welcome him warmly while at the same time prodding him gently for further concessions. After three hours of private meetings during a two-day period, Reagan and Nakasone emerged with somewhat similar statements. Reagan noted that Japan's restrictions on U.S. products would "continue to weigh heavily" on relations, and called on the Japanese for "tangible progress...
...Lebanese were particularly anxious to get on with the peace talks. They feared that continued delays would increase the difficulty of getting the Israelis out of the country, not to mention the Syrians and the P.L.O. They were also concerned that the buzz-word normalization on the agenda might have made a Syrian and P.L.O. withdrawal impossible. This in turn caused the Lebanese to wonder whether the Israelis, in trying to impose such a condition, were serious about the negotiations. So they welcomed the compromise agenda proposed by U.S. Envoy Morris Draper, who has attended the Israeli-Lebanese negotiating sessions...