Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrestling team snagged three recruits who are anxious to pin down the Ivy League title. Joel SanPedro--who had a 66-3 record in his last two years of high school--will wrestle at the 118-lb. level. Roxbury Latin's Courtney Henery, one of New England's top prep-schoolers a year ago, will compete in the 113-lb. class. Also joining the grapplers is John Willoughby of Cleveland, Ohio, who will wrestle at the 177-lb. class...
...garbage- compaction area. But the following Monday, Continental's data processors discovered they were short $227 million in checks that the bank had honored but not yet entered in its computers. A crew of janitors then began searching the immediate area, to no avail. Finally, after an anxious hunt, they located the documents in the compaction room amid bundles of wastepaper mingled with noxious cigarette butts and cardboard coffee cups. If the checks had not been found, Continental would have faced the laborious job of straightening out a $227 million imbalance in its books. Last week, however, when...
...still near the peak of the summer travel season, but an eerie silence reigned last week in Concourse D at Denver's Stapleton International Airport. Nearby, the entire 42-aircraft passenger fleet of Frontier Airlines sat grounded. In the terminal building, there were occasional scenes of chaos as anxious Frontier passengers, left stranded by a sudden shutdown, scrambled to find other airlines that would accept their tickets. As the paralysis wore on, groups of Frontier's 4,700 employees huddled in airport corridors and union halls to glean the slightest rumor of their fate...
Only after the media began scrutinizing Harvard's electioneering did it become public that Bok authorized the letter. At a time when the University will need all the imagination it can muster to remain a leading player in an increasingly competitive academic marketplace, Harvard is no more anxious to respect the views of students or concerned outsiders...
While working on last-minute details in his office over the Labor Day weekend, Stephenson said in an interview that he wants to take a short vacation, but isn't anxious to walk away from the party he planned...