Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most innovative proposal the task force offers is for the creation of a center for excellence in teaching that would serve as a resource center for faculty members anxious to improve the effectiveness of their teaching. Apparently, funds are already being sought for this center...
...stand after a track meet in Europe and received a medal and an envelope. The envelope contained a cash "appearance fee"-remuneration for showing up to compete in the event-and the provider was a member of the host country's amateur federation. An American track-meet promoter, anxious to lure a top dash man to his indoor meet to increase the gate, called a speedster and promised him $800 plus expenses for joining the field. But two meets were scheduled on the opposite coast for the same weekend, and the sprinter had been offered round-trip plane tickets...
...Anxious to avoid another debacle, Harvard has taken several steps in the last 12 months to make this year's clambake run smoothly, according to Victor A. Koivumaki '68, associate for classes and reunions of the Associated Harvard Alumni...
...negotiations. Once the London talks were finished, Carter planned to do some direct Middle East business on the way home. In Geneva, he was due to meet Syrian President Hafez Assad, fresh from five days of talks in Moscow with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, another fellow who is anxious to play an important role in the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations...
...dozen rebel organizations, including a full-fledged guerrilla force fighting for independence in Eritrea, a desert province along the Red Sea coast. While cracking down at home, Mengistu-like other African leftist leaders-has attempted to consolidate his power by cozying up to the Soviet Union. He was especially anxious to court the Kremlin in view of the rapid cooling of the U.S.'s interest in Ethiopia following the junta's ouster of the Emperor, who had received $600 million in American aid between...