Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another feature common to most students seeking counseling is their professional goals. "My hunch is that people in the pre-professionals tend to be more anxious, because they tend to see more riding on the outcome," explains Catlin...
...past. They can cope in the future as they have in the past. We help them sort out reality from their fears and fantasies about what will happen after such a failure--to look at the problem and sort out the real issues that are causing them to be anxious," he says...
...Soviets, however, were not anxious to cause any trouble on the third anniversary of that cold day in late December 1979 when Soviet paratroopers landed at Kabul airport and began a prolonged, costly and so far unsuccessful campaign to control Afghanistan. Babrak Karmal, 53, the Kremlin's hand-picked leader, remains in power, but the Soviet Union's 105,000 troops have failed in rooting out the mujahedin, the ragtag but stubborn guerrillas who control most of the countryside. Neither side has gained or lost much ground over the past three years, and all signs point...
...there is an opposite fear that drives anxious executives toward the machines: the worry that younger and more sophisticated rivals will push ahead of them. "All you have to do," says Alexander Horniman, an industrial psychologist at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, "is walk down the hall and see people using the computer and imagine they have access to all sorts of information you don't." Argues Harold Todd, executive vice president at First Atlanta Bank: "Managers who do not have the ability to use a terminal within three
Members were particularly anxious to protect the pay raise they had given themselves for Christmas, which was likely to be lost if Reagan vetoed the continuing resolution. The 15% increase voted for House members, their first substantial raise in five years, was in fact long overdue. The main problem was one of timing, taking a pay increase when 12 million people are out of work. Said Congressman Leon Panetta of California: "It's the cherry on top of the pie to end up with a continuing resolution that has no money for jobs but a pay increase for Congress...