Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tightening job market receives more attention from the administration and worried graduate students, some in academia are concerned that doctoral candidates will be so anxious about earning a living that they will forget why they are studying in the first place...
...astonishment that some people would pay so much for items of such small monetary value wasn't surprising. Indeed, if the media is "our national nervous system," as Tom Wicker, the former New York Times columnist, wrote in a 1983 article looking back on the Kennedy years, then its anxious effort, in this period when many still consider it good to be selfish and greedy, to escape examining the emotions which the auction made manifest is understandable...
...many of us, it was a time of wild mood swings in which the dream-like unreality of a Harvard in near chaos was periodically trumped by the anxious reality of a draft lottery, if not a draft notice. The fey Brattle Street bohemian culture that greeted us in 1967--cool was defined as seeing "Casablanca" repeatedly during reading period--was superseded by the apocalyptic visions of "2001" and "Let It Bleed...
...organized in large, airy suites containing bathrooms, were considered more desirable than housing at Radcliffe, where rooms were often on a long hallway with communal bathrooms. Because of the comfort factor, as well as the considerable distance between the academic buildings and the Quad, many women were anxious to move to the river...
...reporter. That clever move annoyed folks at Dole headquarters, who felt snubbed (and, they admit, unable to put a more positive spin on the exchange). The whole episode left such a bad taste in Dole's mouth that when nervous G.O.P. fund raisers, sounding a bit like anxious parents, recently asked Dole how things were going with Powell, the candidate said he'd prefer not to talk about...