Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through a career that included Army service in the Korean War, work with a Chicago management consultant firm, and the founding of two small cosmetics companies in Los Angeles, Magruder was described as "charming, a nice guy, anxious to please." As a Nixon political aide, Magruder "had a good feeling for publicity and advertising," said one associate, "but I wouldn't want him to analyze a major policy issue...
...troubled me, either. I feel that the process of aging has given me more scope, breadth and power. Ever since I was a little girl, I have loved birthdays; each year gives me a sense of accruing more and more. I don't mean that I'm particularly anxious to die! I'm just extremely curious to see what is going to happen during the next twenty years. I think it's going to be a hard but amazing time...
Renewal officials are anxious to move ahead with development since, as Rowland warned at the first hearing, an extended delay could mean the loss of Federal funds for the project...
Favored Hedge. Individual investors suspect that they have been neglected by brokers who are anxious to woo the big-block trades of the institutions. Individuals pay higher commissions than the institutions do, and many feel that they get inferior research service from brokers. Some also fear that the institutions profit from inside information not available to the small investor. The Equity Funding scandal this spring did nothing to allay that suspicion; some institutions got rid of their stock before news broke that an insurance subsidiary of Equity Funding had been falsifying its books...
...record (1:5⅜). As usual, he broke out of the gate about even with the rest of the field. Then he promptly dropped back to last in the field of 13. Since he was the 3-to-2 favorite, he must have given many thousands of backers an anxious moment. But that seems to be the strategy that he and Turcotte, his steady rider for most of the past year, have worked out together...