"I was waiting for 11 months, " said Rivera, who acknowledged feeling a little anxious before his first regular-season pitch since knee surgery.
But taxpayers could be forgiven for getting a little anxious.
Or to put it another way, investors are now a little more anxious about lending to Spain than to Italy.
Finally, and perhaps most important of all, Germany has dropped its demand that in any future bailouts of governments with excessive debts, there should be losses imposed on private-sector creditors - which more than anything else explains why holders of Italian bonds are feeling a little less anxious this evening.
Bellamy, playing on the left wing, seemed a little over-anxious on his home-coming with a string of loose passes - but great interplay between him and Bothroyd created space for Peter Whittingham whose 20-yard shot fizzed just wide of Sullivan's left-hand post.
"In the first half we were a little bit too anxious, not having the ball secure in our hands, and our shots weren't falling at the same time, " Oladipo said.
But she held her head high, flaring her nostrils a little, appraising the room with a residual trace of her anxious hauteur.
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In his black leather jacket, Duris is an anxious little hot shot with a twitchy, feral snarl that comes close to the reflexive grimace of the dangerous young Jean-Louis Trintignant.
She said it teasingly, with a little laugh, but in her look was an anxious question.
Watching them in Brighton, with those cord jackets still slack with metal badges, some reassuringly bushy beards and anxious youngsters, it's a little hard to think of them as cool.
From Montana to Louisiana, these anxious voters have made at least six Democratic senators a little uneasy heading into next year's election season.
"We're all very anxious to know what happened, but we won't know that for a little while yet, " she said.
His remarks in Tampa provided the outlines of a case against Mr. Obama, but they offered little to suggest how Mr. Romney would improve life for anxious Americans.
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