Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help anxious cooks, the USDA and other Government agencies have toll-free hot lines for consumer questions. Some requests are a bit exotic. "Did we really have to throw out the whole roast just because my daughter-in-law mistook a daffodil bulb for an onion and sliced it over the meat?" asked a worried caller. Yes, replied the hot line, the bulbs are toxic to humans. Other questions indicate a lot of basic ground needs covering. Two samples: "Can spaghetti sauce left open on the counter for three days hurt me?" and "Is it O.K. to eat groceries that...
People are just as anxious about water as they are about food. That is understandable, since roughly 1,000 contaminants have been detected in public supplies and virtually every major water source is vulnerable to pollution. About half the U.S. population relies on surface water -- from rivers, lakes and reservoirs that may harbor industrial wastes and pesticides washed off fields by rain. The other half uses groundwater -- from underground wells and springs that may be tainted by chemicals slowly seeping in from toxic-waste dumps. In some areas where groundwater supplies are being gradually depleted, the chemical pollutants are becoming...
...sons "took an enormous amount of initiative on the ranch" from the beginning, working themselves to the point of physical and mental "exhaustion," Micki Colfax says. She says she still remembers Drew, at age 5, on the roof hammering nails. "He was so small but so anxious to help," she recalls...
Many Catholic academicians, pleased with the laissez-faire environment that has developed since the Second Vatican Council, are anxious to prevent any rollback. The Vatican, on the other hand, intends to issue a long-pending decree on higher education including specific provisions for removing dissidents. The whole issue could come to a head next month when some 170 Catholic leaders from around the world meet in Rome to discuss the final draft of the decree. Father Richard McBrien, chairman of the University of Notre Dame theology department, is confident that the document will cause no change in the status...
Invoking the name of the late Vice PresidentHubert H. Humphrey, Flaherty said, "I hope wecontinue our commitment to provide for theservices that the people of the Commonwealth havecome to expect and deserve in order to meet ourbasic commitments to the have-nots, thehave-littles and the anxious haves...