Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, Coach Shepard is a man of "major-league" calibre. In quoting Mr. Frazier without explanation or amplification, Mr. Ruge has brought before the Harvard audience an incident which should have been ignored and forgotten. Conceived in error, it should have died in obsurity. Apparently Mr. Ruge was anxious to have a "catchy" lead for his article; he should, however, have investigated the circumstances behind Mr. Frazier's comment before he brought such an outrageous statement to the full attention of the Harvard community...
...never really warm; since the U.S. Congress last summer served notice that it would eliminate Belgrade's "most favored nation" trading clause this year, they have been positively chilly. Marshal Tito's ostentatiously friendly trip to Moscow last year did not improve matters, either. But Belgrade was anxious to assure the U.S. that it was officially still "unaligned," and to smooth things over, Rusk agreed at the last minute to make his visit...
...should have started shouting back in 1947," says Radio Astronomer Charles Seeger. "But we didn't know then what we had hold of." Anxious to make up for this omission, the University of California scientist was in Washington last week shouting as loud as an amateur lobbyist can, crying for control of a tiny band of frequencies (608-614 megacycles) on the electromagnetic spectrum. Commercial-television men call that band Channel 37, and they long to fill it. Radio astronomers want it kept clear of all interference so that they can listen in peace to the whispering radio waves...
...credit plan, they can deduct 7% on plant modernization costs from their taxes. The Treasury estimates that these two plans place an additional $2.5 billion at the disposal of U.S. companies this year. Businessmen seem eager to reach for the new tools that the machine tool industry is anxious to supply...
...other Indian industrialists of his generation are more civic-minded and less apologetic about wielding great wealth than were their fathers and grandfathers. Since their companies generally thrive despite India's chaotic economic conditions-while many government projects founder because of red tape and mismanagement-they are understandably anxious to protect themselves from nationalization. Yet they agree that India's problems are so many and so huge that there is plenty of room for both private and public enterprise in the economy...