Word: anxiousness
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...awfully faithful son, a much more faithful Xerox of his father than Jeb, who after all went to the University of Texas, not Yale, then married his Mexican wife, Columba, and settled in Florida rather than back home. W. followed his father step for step. "He is always anxious to please his father," one of the President's oldest and closest counselors said a few years ago, "and he has done it by emulation. He went to Yale. He was a combat pilot. He went into the oil business in Midland. He ran for Congress. In his way, he tried...
...anxious promoters of a start-up company, wearing their Sears suits and begging for an investment from clench-jawed venture capitalists wearing Brioni: there is a version of this scene in the founding myth of almost every tech firm from Sun Microsystems to eBay. Venture-capital financing is as embedded in the culture of Silicon Valley as integrated circuits and $750,000 tract houses. So perhaps it's not surprising that this form of financing--and its results-oriented assessment of potential investments--has made its way to the nonprofit sector...
That did it. When word leaked Thursday that McCain had opened the door a sliver, the entire city started a mad round of speculation. Anxious to fan the flames were House Republicans who have been trying to put together a Bush-McCain ticket since the end of the GOP primaries. The Arizona senator is the most popular Republican in the country and vulnerable House members have the fistful of polls to prove it. If McCain goes on the ticket they think they'll be able to keep control of the House...
That's a bit of a stretch. While their lawyers can be forgiven for downplaying the financial effects of the verdict for anxious stockholders, the tobacco companies are dreaming if they think they're going to weasel out of the damages altogether. Granted, they will never have to pay the full bill; thanks to the tobacco interests in the Florida legislature, it's now illegal to bankrupt a company via punitive damages. And at this rate, that's exactly what this kind of settlement would do; big tobacco is mortgaged to the hilt, and the companies are already chained...
...concerned about the Asian and Latin American economies - too-pricey oil could choke off nascent recoveries and reduce demand down the road. They're mindful of that Gulf War IOU they still owe the U.S. for getting (and keeping) Saddam out of their backyard. And they're not anxious to become one of the Bush-Gore presidential campaign scapegoats. Gore has so far been content to bash Big Oil (the U.S. kind) and Bush the current administration's energy policy; now it's likely to stay that way, with the Saudis and Arab politics staying at a comfortable remove from...