Word: anxiousness
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...case, the longer the crisis drags out, the more the media will become anxious to unleash the h-word, as soon as a critical mass of politicians - or yellow-ribbon-wielding citizens - provide them cover to do so. At a face-to-face with President Bush Monday morning, one reporter asked point-blank at what point the troops become "hostages." Bush used the opportunity to hint diplomatically that China could be threatening its relationship with the U.S., but he didn't directly answer the question. Which is fine: What the media need to understand is that...
...free-trade area could turn some of NAFTA's winners into losers. The Mexican auto-parts industry, for instance, exports more than 60% of its production to the U.S. But Enrique Zambrano Benitez, CEO of Proeza, a partsmaker that employs 5,000 in Monterrey, Mexico, is anxious about Brazil's big parts indus-try, which currently faces U.S. barriers that would fall in the proposed free-trade area...
...could lead to the most dramatic campaign-finance overhaul since the post-Watergate reforms of 1974. McCain-Feingold's reforms are so sweeping, in fact, that no one can be sure of what will happen after this week. The House will get its turn, and there are lots of anxious lawmakers on both sides who have reason to kill the bill before it kills them. Then President George W. Bush has to sign it. (He has hinted he will.) Finally, the courts will have to rule on the legal challenges that reform opponents are already drafting, particularly to a provision...
...some analyses, the 1990s will be an anxious era of dues paying for the excesses of the '80s. That may be true in a public sense, but in private lives, how much fun was the past decade? For most Americans it was a time of struggling to keep up with everyone who seemed to be making it big. Now that the bubble of financial speculation has burst, people should - and do - feel entitled to accept more modest aspirations. The real estate market was a prime example of a 1980s torture track. Americans started thinking of housing as a vehicle...
...publicly put pressure on Beijing makes it all the more difficult to simply cave in to Washington's demands. And yet, from a U.S. perspective, a new president who has been doing his best to cultivate a tough and resolute image in international affairs is being made to look anxious and uncertain - and he, too, can't afford to project weakness, which probably rules out an apology...