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Australia’s statements have been typical – falling over backward to avoid giving offense, and too anxious to balance criticism with praise.
The critical limit beyond which creditors become anxious has been raised significantly by the bailout architecture put in place over the last two years.
Thus, resolving these questions is vital for Russia’s political elites who are anxious to preserve the current perks and gain more.
But, despite the anxious rhetoric, the oil-supply problem has become worse and energy security more complex.
Instead, for the most part, economic narratives have prevailed: globalization, while improving overall wellbeing, also dislocates workers and industries, and generates greater income disparity, creating the anxious electorates that backed Brexit and Trump.
Contrary to the popular narrative, Trump does not owe his victory to people who are most anxious about falling off the economic ladder.
According to Jokela, selection pressure favors people of both sexes who are extroverted, open to experience, and less anxious.
They weaken it by undermining our elected representatives, whose job is to exercise their good judgment rather than voice the gut feelings of an anxious, angry people.
Once the episode of zero interest rates ends, the US Federal Reserve will be anxious to reassert its commitment to price stability.
The Kazakhs are keen to sell their oil and gas to the West at the very moment that the European Union is anxious to shed its dependence on Russian supplies.
Russia is deeply suspicious of the OSCE – the Kremlin recently restricted the number of OSCE observers for Russian elections – so Kazakhstan’s future stewardship hints that the Kazahks are anxious to move closer to the West, and unafraid to challenge their former masters in the Kremlin.
This bid to get round the erratic Torgyan may work as Orban does "connect" with rural Hungary, as that is where his roots are, and other Smallholder parliamentarians are anxious for ministerial posts.
As with these other reward triggers, after the dopamine burst wears off, the consumer feels a letdown – irritable, anxious, and longing for the next fix.
Though India is rightly allergic to being seen as a US-supported counterweight to a rising China, in practice it is avidly courted by Southeast Asian countries anxious to balance the Chinese, a development that suits American interests.
It affects young people anxious about their prospects and older people nostalgic for their youth.
Anxious pessimists, often on the center left, are glummer about the future, but seem content merely to soften its hardest edges.
Both accepting and anxious pessimists focus so much on the risks and difficulties of change that they ignore the pitfalls of inaction – not least the rise of populism – while angry pessimists assume that they can smash the system while maintaining its benefits.
As a result, accepting and anxious pessimists tend to elect governments that duck difficult decisions (witness Germany’s grand coalition), while angry pessimists make matters worse (by voting for Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda or for Brexit, for example).
No one can create a stable political order for them; with the Americans gone, meddlesome Arab neighbors and anxious Iranians can only lose by dooming Iraq to remain a tinderbox.
Last October, British Foreign Minister David Miliband was so anxious to maintain Chinese good will that he came close to denouncing his predecessors’ recognition of Tibet’s autonomy 100 years ago.
First, it makes consumers anxious and depresses demand.
In the US, the ABC television network recently reported that psychologists are starting to see more neuroses in people anxious about climate change.
We see the same pattern in the United Kingdom, where a survey showed that half of young children aged 7-11 are anxious about the effects of global warming, often losing sleep because of their concern.
One of the most hopeful and refreshing aspects of the Arab Spring has been the retreat of Arab radicalism in the face of real people anxious to address real problems.
To a bookish young man, Allen, the anxious intellectual who still gets the girl, was a kind of role model.
Nor should it seek to play into the regional agendas of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan – hardly paragons of democracy – which are anxious to confront what they portray as a menacing “arc” of Shi’a Muslim power extending from Iran to Lebanon via Syria, and in Iraq.
This makes people anxious for their jobs.
The Americans, French, and others continue to push the Russians to accept that Syria’s government has used chemical weapons; the Russians, anxious to protect their Syrian ally, reject the evidence as inconclusive; and the carnage continues.
Consider recent events in Argentina, which is facing certain economic losses as anxious investors have second thoughts about the country in the aftermath of the government’s nationalization of energy giant YPF.
We feel more anxious, for example, when we surf alone, because we know that, in the extremely unlikely event that a shark decides it wants a fiberglass-and-neoprene meal, our odds of survival increase when the shark has more than one target from which to choose.
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