Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anxious tone, Buchholz concedes that he is "behind pace," but still managing to get enough sleep and maintain his weekend social activities...
...result of his Progressive approach to the crisis. Clinton wanted to use government creatively to solve the nation's problems, through innovations like public service, welfare reform, and universal health care. But the Democrats' failure to make these changes in Clinton's first two years infuriated the "Anxious Middle;" as Dionne calls the economically and philosophically insecure middle class; once again, government seemed impotent to address the problems they cared about. So, in 1994, the same people who turned against Bush now turned against Clinton and the Democrats, in favor of Newt Gingrich's Republicans...
...beating him in Louisiana, the whole race looked like it was opening up--and the G.O.P. coalition like it was falling apart. Attracted to his relaxed views on abortion and homosexuality, social libertarians went for Forbes; values conservatives for Buchanan; supply siders for Forbes; deficit hawks for Dole; anxious economic nationalists for Buchanan, who invited angry Democrats in union halls to "join the party of greed" long enough to help him hijack the nomination. Even Lamar Alexander could claim to be a credible contender--the new safe choice--by being less mean than Dole and Forbes, less Beltway than Dole...
...budget over seven years. Why are Republicans now exaggerating these differences, letting go a Big Deal, which would by any measure be a huge achievement? Some blame the freshmen, who are said to prefer no deal to a "bad" deal. Yet one freshman admits their phalanx is in disarray, anxious over tough Medicare votes they've cast with nothing as yet to show for them. They huddled last Saturday to ponder which outcome best serves their principles--and politics. Centrists in both parties kept up the hunt for enough votes on the Big Deal to inspire their leaders to keep...
...month those numbers increased sharply when Rwandan Hutu from the Mugano and Ntamba camps, who had sought refuge in Burundi from their own civil war, fled fighting in the area and made for the Tanzanian border. Some 20,000 managed to get across. With an additional 130,000 increasingly anxious Rwandan Hutu still in Burundi, another refugee crisis seems imminent...