Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little wonder, then, that an anxious and uncertain audience filled the Wang Center on March 21, apprehensively awaiting the world premiere of "Hot and Cool," three dances set to contemporary music including songs by Lovett himself. No two people could quite predict what the evening held in store. But by the final curtain call, everyone was in agreement. Screams, whistles, and a standing ovation proved that the performance had been an incredible and undeniable success...
...President, a small voice inside him, the voice of the Depression kid from hardscrabble Russell, Kansas, said, "Bob, don't quit your day job." And he didn't. Flying back to Washington last week on his campaign plane after wrapping up the nomination fight, Dole confided that he was "anxious to get back to work." Back to work? In other words, Dole was done moonlighting as a Republican primary candidate and now wanted to return to his real work, the job he knows and loves and does better than anyone else...
...midst of anxious times, some consumers have decided that "dressing well is the best revenge," using high fashion to show they've still got their jobs and station in life. It's called "let your Ferragamos do the talking," says Isaac Lagnado. And many people are doing just that. "Business is booming across the board," says Massimo Ferragamo, president of Salvatore Ferragamo. "Sales are running 55% ahead of last year...
Walsh shows no alteration in his philosophy or letup in his optimism. He expects immediate improvement and he's anxious...
This is a sound argument, as far as it goes. After all, the powerful forces of an increasingly freewheeling world economy have been depressing middle-class wages and producing what Dionne calls the Anxious Middle--voters who are disenchanted with government but fearful of the creative destruction that is producing big winners and a lot of losers in the national economy. Dionne believes that the very technological revolution that Gingrich extols and that is roiling the American economy will hasten the day when the G.O.P.'s antigovernment mantra becomes unworkable...