Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stressed-out manager. Two years ago, he walked out on the Knicks at the start of what proved to be a disastrous season. Yet Van Gundy insists that although his team is fighting for play-off position in the NBA's talent-rich Western Conference, he's not an anxious guy. "Being a coach is more frustrating than stressful, because so much is beyond your control." He may draw up the brilliant play, but Yao Ming has to make the chip shot. Knowing that someday they are likely to be fired, Van Gundy and others take comfort...
...struggled in the first period tonight, but now that we won I won’t feel so bad," Stone said. "It’s championship hockey and there’s a lot of desperation on the ice. I’m anxious for Sunday, we’ll play a lot better...
...Crimson yesterday that he plans to apply. “I’ll continue to do what I have to do to reestablish my career,” he said. “It’s something I have a passion for. I’m anxious to get back to the job I love...
Quivering knees, clammy palms and an anxious look of shameful dread—these features of fear define the standard immigrant to the “give us your tired, your poor” United States of America. Visa-holders, having left a sweaty fingerprint and deathly-white photograph for the steroid-pumping security guard, go off to haggle for their baggage with the other traumatized “aliens.” With any luck, they also catch a glimpse of a majestic George W. Bush standing before a fluttering Stars and Stripes, with a banner bellowing...
...Trump's The Apprentice is the season's highest-rated new show, reality TV is discovering what sitcoms have known for decades: people love to watch other people work. In the real world, workers may be worried about outsourcing, downsizing and on-the-job surveillance, but on TV, cutthroat, anxious work under surveillance is becoming big entertainment--perhaps in the same way that horror movies and roller coasters make anxiety fun. For Fox reality chief Mike Darnell (who's making Casino, about working in, you guessed it, a casino, with Apprentice producer Mark Burnett), the series also focus on timeless...