Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult to draw firm conclusions from random interviews, but it is obvious that many Afrikaners regard the traditional apartheid as doomed. They anticipate significant changes and, though anxious and apprehensive, insist they are ready to cope with them. Whether they are really ready is another question...
...enter surreptitiously, America can be as much a prison as a refuge. Most illegal immigrants live along the margins of society, working cheaply, anonymously and without complaint so as to avoid detection by authorities. Although they have become part of the texture of American life, they have remained anxious fugitives, separate and unequal. Part of America, surely...
...anyone who hasn't been in a car in the last 20 years, the attendants explain how to put on a seatbelt. For the benefit of the very stupid, the attendants point out that it is wise to extinguish cigarettes before putting on an oxygen mask. For anyone anxious to struggle out of a seat and stand in the aisles for a half-hour while the landing crew tries to open the doors, the attendants suggest waiting until the plane has landed before retrieving luggage from the overhead bins...
...atmosphere of urgency to patch-up frazzled relations, Israel and America have been anxious to deny the former Intelligence Committee head's statement. This is all too understandable...
Texaco stockholders are likely to feel anxious soon. Some of them "could be wiped out" by the bankruptcy, according to one legal expert. Many of the large institutional investors that hold Texaco stock are forbidden by various rules and regulations to own securities that fail to pay dividends. But even those that are not so constrained are unhappy. Harold Ofstie, for example, is portfolio manager of Philadelphia-based Delaware Management, which owns 3.7 million Texaco shares. The bankruptcy filing means a projected loss of $11.1 million in annual dividend income for Delaware. Says Ofstie: "We understand the reasons why Texaco...