Word: nervously
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What did you think she was there to do? I thought she was there to tell me that her little sister was having an affair with Joe. That's what she [told] me. She looked so nervous and she was so young-looking. She was 17, and I was 37. She just looked like a little kid. I was incredulous. I wasn't mad or upset. It was broad daylight and [noon] on a Tuesday, and lawnmowers are going and cars are driving by, and she's telling me her little sister is having an affair. There was never...
They've got good reason to be nervous. With sales running at less than 10 million units annually - the lowest level in more than three decades - there is still a mountain of inventory sitting with dealers around the U.S. despite deep cuts in production, not only by the bankrupt General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Group LLC, but also by companies such as Toyota, Ford and Nissan. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...These racial flare-ups were all the product of implicit assumptions about who belongs in a wealthy neighborhood or Harvard quadrangle and who does not—judgments made by police and nervous white neighbors—and the understandable indignation that African-Americans express when confronted with these assumptions. Gates grew angry when the cops come to ask him what he was doing in his own home because he, of all people, knew exactly why they were there...
...pretty nervous throughout,” Leblanc said. “I didn’t know where I was getting [selected]. It was crazy—I had goose bumps...
...Main Street what Lehman Brothers meant to Wall Street," says Van Haroutunian, a lawyer at Ballon Stoll Bader & Nadler who represents small apparel firms - many of which have borrowed money from CIT. Haroutunian says he has gotten calls this week from more than 40 of his clients who are nervous about what a CIT bankruptcy would do to their business. "It's going to be a tremendous problem...