Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That message was not lost on Washington last week, which is why over the weekend a very seasoned, fairly anxious council of Wise Men pushed hard to devise an exit strategy. The ground was shifting so fast under their feet that some thought it might be only a matter of days before the process passes a point of no return. The negotiators included some who just a week ago thought Clinton might yet escape punishment; now their main question was whether any compromise could head off resignation or impeachment...
With the first round of applications for Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships and Fulbright Grants in the hands of various selection committees, all that anxious senior applicants can do is wait...
Everybody else is in unexplored territory and knows it. With so much at stake Democrats in Congress are anxious not to be cut out of the process that decides how the report will be handled. And Republicans have to be careful not to let the whole thing look like a partisan funfest. So this week House Speaker Newt Gingrich will hold an unusual meeting with minority leader Dick Gephardt and other members of the House leadership to decide just who gets to see the dirty parts. The House rules committee has already drawn up a proposal that would have Starr...
...reportedly viewed White with some suspicion. Boulder cops ruled him out as a suspect early, but district attorney ALEX HUNTER was not so quick to completely clear him, and relations further soured when White wrote Governor ROY ROMER, urging him to replace Hunter with a special prosecutor. "Fleet is anxious to testify and tell his story," says an acquaintance. "He's just been waiting for the right legal venue." The grand jury may call him as early as next month...
...Western bankers and governments are anxious about the devaluation, while Russians are enraged. The Kremlin says the crisis is rooted in a lack of confidence in Russia's markets by foreign investors, "but confidence was lacking because there was no sign this government could do any better than its predecessors," says Quinn-Judge. And this week's fiscal spasms are unlikely to restore Western faith in Yeltsin...