Word: anxiousness
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...from afar having been on leave during the debate. He says he received multiple e-mails from English professors during the controversy, “with web links to the news stories. That was very rare. The very fact that it had so many waves made people much more anxious about what...
...look at what happened after the Ayatullah Khomeini seized power in Iran in 1979 and raised the specter of a radical, anti-American Islamic nation with messianic impulses for the region. Over the next decade two Presidents, anxious for a counterforce to Iran's fundamentalist ambitions, gave diplomatic, financial and military assistance to the secular, "modernist" regime of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. By 1990, with Saddam in Kuwait and threatening the Saudis, the U.S. realized the error of its ways and dispatched half a million troops to help free Kuwait from the grip of its neighbor Iraq. Surely, we assumed...
...trying to disrupt the economy. New York authorities and the FBI have been paying particular attention to securing the bridges into New York City's Manhattan island, especially the Brooklyn Bridge, which is an icon and a vital economic artery. At the same time, officials are anxious to see if al-Hawsawi's files reveal detailed records of al-Qaeda's finances...
America the Anxious...
Although the board’s announcement ended this anxious uncertainty, it stoked other concerns about how active a role the residents would play in future talks, said six-year resident Vince Anzalone. He helped form a new tenants’ association to organize residents’ interests in anticipation of Harvard-Charlesview negotiations...