Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your cover would make Charles Addams happy, Dorian Gray jealous, and Herblock anxious...
...three years, will train teachers for the island's educational program. With no army, no political parties, and no traffic jams, Western Samoa has little concern for the world beyond its shores. As proof, it committed the ultimate heresy in the eyes of other newly independent nations anxious for an immediate voice in the great-power struggles: it announced that it would not immediately seek membership...
After the meeting Belin told reporters that he is anxious to secure a rule requiring Councillors to submit proposed Orders to the Clerk several days before the Council meeting at which they will be introduced. "Such a rule will give all Councillors a chance to study the new legislation and know what it is about." Belin declared...
...only superficially by anti-colonialism. "The use of force for the apprehension of foreign military personnel and advisers in Katanga," which Hoffmann condemns, was probably necessary to quash Tshombe. That, in turn, was a precondition to the institution of a strong Central Government, which is the dream of anyone anxious to avoid a polarization of Cold War forces in the Congo: anyone, in short, who supported what Hoffmann called Hammarskjold's conception of the UN. Hoffmann's confusion of these quite different military actions is surprising. Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas francais...
...Anxious to forestall any lurid SEC revelations, the financial community is in the midst of a frantic bout of self-policing. Three weeks ago, the governors of New York's American Exchange secured the resignation of longtime Amex President Edward McCormick (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week, in a follow-up move, a special Amex investigating committee urged a sweeping reorganization of the exchange, which would bring its practices closer into line with those of the well-policed New York Stock Exchange. Chief changes proposed: to increase the policing power of Amex's administration, decrease the number of "self...