Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anxious that last week the White House called on a sullied though solid political operator. When Tony Coelho quit the House in 1989, he held the third-ranking party post and seemed destined to be Speaker. But he had accepted a questionable loan to buy junk bonds. Rather than undergo an ethics probe, he embarked on a successful investment-banking career...
Though few in Mexico really expect a massive uprising when the winner is announced after next week's presidential vote, the Chiapas declaration touched a national nerve. An anxious Mexico, ruled by the longest-lived one-party system in the world, is about to hold its most competitive election ever. For the first time since 1929, the long tradition of fraudulent elections has given way to a belief that the opposition has a genuine chance of winning. Yet most prospective voters remain to some degree skeptical of government promises that the vote will be completely clean and fraud free...
...scene tells the lesson of "your new vagina" thanks to Ronald/Rhoda. A recent sex-change male transsexual, Rhoda was anxious to try out her new vagina. But Wishman doesn't allow us just to hear it from Wollman, we see her in her first encounter. The poor woman suffers from major blood loss and has to return to the hospital to undergo another series of operations to repare the damage she underwent during...
...first symphony seems to me a bit lacking in the quality for which early critics dubbed it "Beethoven's Tenth Symphony." For example, at the moment of maximum dramatic impact, the brass chorale before the final coda in the last movement, Haitink plows right on through, almost as if anxious to leave it behind him. Brahms delayed writing this symphony for over 20 years, fearing that he would forever remain in the shadow of Beethoven. However, it seems here that Haitink might be the one who feels himself in the shadows of the great symphonists...
...images to be beamed down from the orbiting Hubble telescope. Finally, at about 8, the first pictures came up on the video screen -- and there, right at Jupiter's edge, was a bright splotch of light. "Somebody tell me that isn't one of Jupiter's moons," said an anxious Heidi Hammel, a planetary scientist from M.I.T...