Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grown in 25 years from a small, nearly bankrupt firm to an energy colossus with annual revenues of more than $14 billion. Much of the company's oil, however, comes from such politically unstable parts of the world as North Africa and South America. The firm has been anxious to increase its domestic holdings, yet it found few opportunities for obtaining energy property in the U.S. Hammer told TIME: "If you want elephants, you go where they are. But it has been one of our goals for a long time to make Occidental more domestic oriented." Cities Service...
...season. Off with their heads! But this manically impulsive policy toward personnel, including pogroms of player trading, has exacted a psychic cost. It has tended to reduce what could be the finest team in baseball (once called "the best team that money can buy") to a gang of anxious neurotics who wonder what each night's line-up card will look like. They speculate who the next target of George's wrathful attention will be. Once it was Reggie Jackson. Now Tommy John has fallen from grace. Wistful, disgusted, the players sit in the locker room and talk...
...struggle intensifies, angry and anxious brewery bosses have discarded their easy, neighborhood-pub relations with competitors. Says Pabst President William F. Smith Jr.: "I think some of the camaraderie that existed ten years ago has changed. We've put on boxing gloves." Smith has hung a sign on his office wall that reads: SHOW ME A GOOD LOSER AND I'LL SHOW YOU A LOSER. Miller Chairman John A. Murphy has been known to take satisfaction out of wiping his feet on an office rug bearing the familiar eagle logo of Anheuser-Busch. Over at Anheuser-Busch, Chairman...
Phillips takes a broader historical perspective on the current situation. He portrays post-Vietnam America as a defeated empire in the throes of the fourth major inflationary "Price Revolution" since fuedal times. Much like the people of another economically troubled former empire--Weimer Germany--Americans are anxious, profoundly troubled by a vague sense that their country's moral fiber is unwinding before their eyes. This anxiety is the root of a "radical centrism" among Middle Americans--a revolutionary mood that makes Main Street susceptible to populistic appeals for "decency" and to promises of a mythical good old days restored. Ronald...
...relations with Pakistan. I do not know how close they want to get. We have been anxious for friendship, not for any idealistic reason, but because it is a necessity for us. We want our neighbors to be stable and strong. Nothing is so dangerous as a weak neighbor. You just do not know what they will do. Throughout the years, we have taken all the initiatives. My father [Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister] offered a no-war pact in 1949, and in different forms the offer has been repeated. Then we signed the Simla Agreement...