Word: anxious
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...solution. It wants to marry Machines Bull to such other French electronics firms as Compagnie Générale de Télégraphic Sans Fil, Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston, and Compagnie Générale d'Electricité, but none of these is anxious to wed a loser. The government, which has covered Machines Bull's obligations for December and January, may have to make the dowry more attractive...
...further significant that the courses Harvard does offer on Latin America have only progressed far enough to view the continent as a whole. For anyone anxious to understand why these countries do what they do, this is a terribly inadequate and preliminary stage. It is as though only survey courses of Western Europe were available at Harvard, with the University protesting that a more specific study of the varied languages and cultures within that area was not important enough to merit the student's individual attention. There is no undergraduate course on Mexico, Argentina, Chile, or even Brazil alone...
...income meager, his dependability in paying premiums suspect. Stepping in over the years where white agents waivered, the U.S. Negro community gradually formed its own insurance companies, which now number about 60. With the Negro's per-capita income rising, white-run insurance companies are anxious to get some of his business. They can expect a real battle from the Durham-based North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., the largest Negro-owned firm...
Willing & Anxious. Until 1956, Snelling and Snelling was only Philadelphia's largest employment agency. But its late founder, Louis Snelling Jr., noticed that more and more applicants were willing and even anxious to move elsewhere. To accommodate them, he organized franchised agencies in other cities-a system taken over and expanded by his sons, Robert, 31, now president, and Louis, 33, secretary-treasurer. Because of their youth, the brothers sometimes feel it necessary to deepen their voices and throw in such phrases as "In all my years of experience...
Both Finley and Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, are anxious to avoid lotteries. "We hope not to have too many conflicts," Stewart said yesterday. "We'll turn to giving suites to students who have high marks or have performed some service to the House only as a last resort...