Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans wary of open-ended commitments abroad and anxious about lost lives, opposition to the deployment is natural. Somalia is still a dangerous, even deadly place. And the time frame for a U.S. withdrawal is uncertain at best. The chorus of voices calling for the troops to come home could, nourished by these natural fears, soar to a cacophony. But bringing our troops home now would be a tragic mistake...
Thus began the game of chicken that has now reached its anxious finale. Congress set a deadline of next month for the deals to be worked out but, crucially, didn't prescribe any form of compensation. While the broadcasters wanted cash, the cable companies, like squatters told to pay rent after years of living for free, refused, insisting on barter deals. The networks' negotiating threat has been that if the cable companies didn't pay, and couldn't show Saturday Night Live or 60 Minutes anymore, their customers would rebel. The cables' negotiating threat has been that if they stopped...
...that Letterman is never really tan and well rested -- wasn't then and isn't now, as he puts the finishing touches on the latest entry in the late-night-TV sweepstakes. "He's in as good shape as I've ever seen him, but he's basically an anxious, insecure guy," says senior writer Richard Zoglin, who wrote the 1989 article and this week's cover story...
Frustrations increased when two rendezvous with the kidnappers fell through. A third attempt ran aground when a squadron of police cars, pursuing suspects in a totally unrelated crime, streaked through a site at the precise moment that the Weinsteins had been directed to leave the ransom there. The anxious family was worried that the kidnappers -- who never showed -- had suspected a trap and might retaliate against their victim. Finally, last Monday morning, came the go-ahead for the money drop. As instructed, Weinstein's eldest son Mark dragged two satchels filled with bills in small denominations to the entrance...
...passed over for Johnny Carson's job, but now David Letterman is the man of the hour in late-night TV. For this anxious, driven performer, however, success is never...