Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...self-preservation withdrawal. This makes close relationships impossible and cuts us off from the source of emotional nurturing we need, further intensifying insecurity, increasing withdrawal and so on in a spiraling cycle of despair. There are many more things than technology in our society that make us feel anxious and insecure. MARILYN KRAMER Wausau, Wisconsin...
ALLISON. BARRY. CHANTAL. DEAN. Erin. Felix. Gabrielle. Humberto. Iris. Jerry. Karen. Luis. If residents of low-lying coastal areas are anxious this summer, they have a dozen reasons--and more are undoubtedly on the way. The hurricane season has not yet peaked, but menacing storms are already rumbling across the Atlantic Ocean one after another, like warplanes taking off from a carrier deck. Last week alone, four ominously swirling air masses zigzagged across satellite weather maps, packed so close together that it almost seemed they might merge to form a single monster storm. "You feel like you're standing...
...everybody has Allen's billions, of course, and right now nobody is making much money in the webzine biz. Analysts warn that most of the advertising is coming from the flaky side of corporate budgets: the "new media" departments of businesses anxious not to miss the Internet boat but still profoundly skeptical. If the ads don't generate product sales, they could quickly dry up. "A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught in the hysteria about the Web," says Karen Burka, an electronic-marketing analyst at media consultant SIMBA Information...
...Faulkner floundered for less than five days, most of them spent in the campus infirmary, before deciding to quit. "The past 2-1/2 years came crashing down on me in an instant," she said in a quavering voice when announcing her decision. In a final sign of how anxious some people at the school were to be rid of her, when she returned to her barracks to gather her belongings, she found they had already been packed...
Still, there is always a flip side. People have enemies--social rivals--as well as friends, feel resentful as well as grateful, feel nervously suspicious as well as trusting. Their children, being genetic conduits, can make them inordinately proud but also inordinately disappointed, angry or anxious. People feel the thrill of victory but also the agony of defeat, not to mention pregame jitters. According to evolutionary psychology, such unpleasant feelings are with us today because they helped our ancestors get genes into the next generation. Anxiety goaded them into keeping their children out of harm's way or adding...