Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 100 anxious Cantabrigians and a slew of city and police officials--including Police Commissioner Ronny White, City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan and Harvard Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley--gathered last night in King Elementary School's cafeteria to discuss the crime...
Students and citizens alike said they are anxious about this most recent attack...
CHICAGO: For members of a party that virtually assumes victory in November, a lot of Democrats in Chicago this week are looking worried and anxious. The talk at a gathering of New York delegates and friends Wednesday afternoon was embittered. Many Democrats are close to despair over the looming consequences of the welfare reform law that President Clinton just signed, even as they are dependent on Clinton to help mitigate the consequences in a second term. "It is absolutely the worst bill passed in my 22 years in Congress," said Illinois Senator Paul Simon. "What's going to happen...
...survivors find themselves--anxious, exhausted and excited--parked in comfortable if cramped quarters in a warren of cubicles. It's all part of the latest disruption of career life in the Nothing-Is-Sacred Nineties. When corporate behemoths spin off divisions, they often cite the need to "focus on our core competencies" (translation: "We couldn't run this thing") or to "unlock value for investors" ("We made stupid acquisitions, and now we're dumping them"). 3M had to make hard choices about where to invest its money. Imation lost out because of its lousy earnings compared with other businesses...
...course, the plot exists only to engineer as many all-out fight-fests as possible, preferably with a well-choreographed crowd running as one at the sound of a gun shot. But as the confident funkiness of the opening credits indicate--where the letters jitterbug about as if anxious to get things started--Chan is sure of his audience and what they like. You can tell that from the familiar wink he gives in one of the film's first action sequences: appropriately enough a demonstration before an audience at the training camp...