Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long before acceptance or rejection notices from prestige universities arrived at the homes of anxious applicants last week, it was clear that the most favored youths in the U.S. today are bright Negroes with good high school grades. "Admissions people used to talk about what the average College Board score of their entering class was," notes Amherst Admissions Director Eugene Wilson. "Then it was how many Merit Scholars you got. Now the status symbol is how many Negroes you get." Although the hot pursuit is dismissed by some of the quarry as a cynical and faddish courting of color, most...
...dearth of such experimentation on the Reading Dynamics techniques. Evelyn and her partisans claim that nobody has been able to invent a machine with enough range to test the super-reader. The college reading teachers say that nobody has asked them to build one. Neither side appears anxious to obtain indisputable truth. There is too much to lose. At this point, each has a vested interest in maintaining the status...
Another misconception which the initial results clarify is the notion that faculty members are anxious to take control of their institution. In all types of schools, those questioned indicated that they would like to decrease the time spent in administrative capacities. They would prefer a "quasi-democratic" institution in which they could be influential yet not actually fill administrative posts...
...Kennedy's oval office from his vice-presidential suite in the Old Executive Office Building because it would "give the people confidence," Johnson barked back: "People will get confidence if we do our job properly. Stop this. Our first concern is Mrs. Kennedy and the family." When an anxious assistant tried to talk Johnson into riding in a car instead of endangering himself by walking in the funeral procession, he snapped: "You damned bastards are trying to take over. If I listen to you, I'll be led to stupid, indecent decisions. I'm going to walk...
...Yugoslavia's cheap labor and get in on the growing East European market for Western goods. Several Swedish firms have announced that they are looking for Yugoslav partners "on the condition that business risk be shared, as well as profits." West Germany's Volkswagen is so anxious to set up an assembly plant with Yugoslavia's Dalmaciya Auto that it is offering a full 49% of the necessary cash as investment capital under the code and the remaining 51% as a long-term loan...