Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bennett's secret was that he was able to marry two powerful but seemingly contradictory human instincts: greed and charity. Those who threw in with New Era were so anxious to give, and to get, that they overlooked the obvious. But then greed and charity have met before. Charles Ponzi's biggest extravagance was a $100,000 donation he made to an orphanage...
With enough money, you can do anything. Warner Brothers, perhaps anxious to capture that Disney magic--at the box office--has poured its coffers into a shiny new child-charmer. "A Little Princess" proves that even a transparently moralizing, predictable story can look good if you spend enough money...
...California San Francisco may release the documents, which reportedly showthat cigarette companies knew for decades that a link existed between smoking and cancer. Brown & Williamson tobacco company had claimed the papers were stolen and demanded their return. But Superior Court Judge Stuart Pollack wondered why the firm was so anxious: many of the documents, he noted, had already surfaced in congressional hearings and suits against tobacco companies by four states seeking to recover costs of health care arising from smoking...
Hoffman will continue to teach and will remain active the affairs of the CES, but he said he is anxious to be relieved of the myriad of administrative tasks required of him as chair...
...doctor 15 years her senior, Delia now finds herself in a comfortable Baltimore home with three nearly grown children and no intelligible reasons for staying where she is. She reads paperback romances out of boredom and feels excluded from the fun. "She was," she tells herself, "a sad, tired, anxious, forty-year-old woman who hadn't had a champagne brunch in decades...