Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lights, however, should be the most popular item to get Sonuswitching, the company figures. Travelers will be able to phone and turn the lights on at night to fool prowlers, then turn them off later on. And then, of course, there is always the predatory bachelor anxious for scientific help. With Sonuswitch, he never has to leave the couch. When he wants to turn off the light, all he has to do is clap his hands. There is still a handy riposte available for a quick-witted prey, however. She can slap him hard, twice...
...Government's one-year renewable contracts to handle medicare, the first of which will be granted early next year. The contracts provide for fees to cover "necessary and proper" administrative costs, but there will be no big profits involved. Why, then, are the insurance companies so anxious to help the once-despised program? Some reasons...
...Force career at 45 by heart trouble he has lately been working a 100-hour week at M.I.T. and as chairman of Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. He also sits on six company boards, intends to relinquish all of these seats to avoid conflicts of interest. So anxious is he to get into space that last week he had no sooner finished a speaking engagement in Los Angeles than he jetted to Washington overnight to attend his first Comsat board meeting-still attired in his dinner jacket...
Gail Gillam '66, president of PBH, last night foresaw possible difficulty in recruiting more tutors but said some volunteers now tutoring in Boston might help man the new Cambridge projects. "PBH is anxious to cooperate with the CEOC," Miss Gillam explained, "but we may simply not have enough volunteers to manage all three 'target areas.' PBH certainly won't abandon any of its present programs to work in Cambridgeport and Jefferson Park...
...first thing of great significance is that they took place at all. The Castello Branco government, for all its militant anti-communism, is sincerely anxious to be democratic. There were many pretexts the government could have chosen for cancelling the elections. When the results became known, the government could well have cancelled the results...