Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Imperial Beach, California, the folks who turned out for Brian Bilbray of California's 49th District were polite but anxious. Imperial Beach has been struggling to balance its budget for at least a decade. Bilbray's constituents were concerned about what he and his fellow deficit hawks might do about Social Security and Medicare benefits...
Students were not the only ones struggling for change at Harvard. The Nixon administration, anxious to suppress student uprisings, passed a series of bills designed to stop the flow of aid to campuses with a history of radical activities. Harvard, with its recent history of political demonstration, was one target...
Epps also said it would be necessary to take some steps to assure parents of incoming first-years that their children will be safe on Harvard's campus. We've had a number of telephone calls from anxious parents," he said...
...anxious advocates for the poor and elderly fight to stave off budget cuts, the Pentagon seems immune. 0ne would never know it, however, from the rhetoric wielded on behalf of Pentagon spending. "You couldn't fight Desert Storm today," House Speaker Newt Gingrich told TIME, despite Pentagon assertions that the U.S. military is now primed to fight two such wars at once. "We're going to get people killed if we downsize much more...
...former fellow Joint Chieftains, who insist that retreating from a two-war strategy would tempt troublemakers once U.S. troops were pinned down in the first conflict. "Not true," he insists. "If the adversary sees the U.S. keeping its commitment somewhere, it deters the second. Nobody in the world is anxious to fight the U.S. if they judge that we are serious." McPeak acknowledges that the Clinton Administration's shaky relations with the military make it unlikely that this Administration would push to replace the two-war strategy with a more modest pledge, although the Pentagon's civilian leaders quietly suggested...