Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians had been plumping for a European security conference ever since 1954. Hoping to make it the capstone of his career, Brezhnev had been anxious for it to be completed well in advance of the Soviet Party Congress next February, at which time he will probably retire. The long-ailing party chief remained fairly active throughout the week, though he left President Kekkonen's formal dinner on the first night after less than an hour. "Why does he do such things?" asked a slightly amused British diplomat. "He must know what everyone will say." The Soviets claimed that Brezhnev...
Memorable Moments. The most important meetings of the conference were unquestionably the private ones between Ford and Brezhnev. The U.S. was anxious for a sign of some momentum toward a SALT II agreement and perhaps some progress in the currently deadlocked Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks, whose aim is to reduce military forces in Central Europe. Indeed, the U.S. believes some sort of headway is necessary before a Ford-Brezhnev summit can take place in Washington this fall. At their first meeting, over a mahogany table at the U.S. embassy, the two leaders talked for two hours and professed...
...participants have varying views about the importance of the document. The Soviets, who have been plumping for a European security agreement for more than 20 years, hailed the declaration as a triumph for their foreign policy. There is no doubt that Leonid Brezhnev was anxious to have the treaty signed and sealed before the convening of the 25th Soviet Party Congress in Moscow next February...
...high-flying Xerox Corp. was so anxious to get into the computer business that it paid more than $950 million in stock to buy Scientific Data Systems, a California-based mainframe maker. Now the copying-machine giant is just as anxious to get out; last week it announced that it would stop making basic computers over the next year or so, thus joining the list of corporate giants that have failed to dent the computer market dominated by IBM (others: General Electric, RCA). Xerox deducted from second-quarter earnings $84.4 million in estimated costs for discontinuing the computer business, reducing...
...been in school or working out regularly or both. Then she came back in the spring to train at the Eastern Development Camp, where she met Maggie and Nancy, and in June she won the Nationals in a single scull. Now she was looking up at Daig with an anxious expression in her dark, moody eyes...