Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When the early guesstimates on this Black Friday's sales come in next week - and you will see anxious economists in malls doing exit polling - they may not mean that much even if they're encouraging. Last year's day-after-Turkey-Day numbers were plump but the rest of the season was lean until after the January markdowns, and the recent trend has been that shopping gets done earlier and earlier every year. This Black Friday could be pure gold and still be the last decent day of the year...
...evaluate them before they are hired and to provide them with better training before they have their first class. At a minimum, candidates who are not native English speakers should be required to posess sufficient proficiency in spoken English to communicate effectively with a room full of anxious undergraduates. At the best university in the world, it is simply unacceptable that some TFs are put into the classroom with only rudimentary English communication skills...
...This is nothing new for Shaolin?the macho fighting monks were flouting dietary laws as early as the Ming dynasty, but abbot Yong Xin, anxious about Shaolin's newly pristine image, finds his prodigal brother's behavior poisonous. "The man openly eats meat and drinks," he gasps. Even in the U.S., kung fu aficionados?many of whom themselves know Shaolin only from the movies?believe Yan Ming is too much the joker. Martial arts websites abound with references to the "fake monk." But Yan Ming isn't fazed. "To be a monk you have to know how to be yourself...
Frank Leonard 01 has also succeeded by maintaining a positive attitude during the more anxious moments in New York this fall. Leonard currently lives three blocks east of the World Trade Center Plaza. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, there was no power in Leonards apartment for seven days and his own block was engulfed in the stench that many have noted when visiting the site of the Twin Towers. (Many current students like Emily L. Katz 02 and Adam M. Taub 02, a Crimson editor, have called this smellsimilar to burning rubberthe most shocking and powerful element...
...Talk is already turning to the future government, even elections. The plan is to call a Loyat Jirga, a national gathering of all Afghanistan's tribal chiefs to debate the shape of the country's new order. Atta says all the commanders are anxious to avoid a repeat of 1992 when, after defeating the Soviets, rival commanders turned on each other and fought pitched battles on the streets of the capital. "This time we want to have democracy," he says. "We have to keep the people with...