Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he refused to promise the AHA that there will be no cuts in male admissions. President Bok, in addressing the meeting, did not appear too anxious to set the record straight on just what "equal access" is supposed to mean...
Federal authorities, anxious to minimize any prejudicial publicity, have so far not revealed their theory of the crime's motive. The signs seem to point to old-fashioned insurance fraud. Moeller bought Sponge Rubber Products' manufacturing operations and inventories last year from the B.F. Goodrich Co., which had found the company's profits unacceptably low. Shortly thereafter, he lost a $5 million Sears, Roebuck account after jacking up prices too abruptly, then lost more business after severely tightening credit terms for customers. A day after Moeller's arrest, Sponge Rubber Products' attorneys filed an insurance...
Somber Mood. The ploy is certainly not lost on the enemy. Despite a perfect day of cloudless skies, beckoning beaches and flowering fields, Israel marked its 27th Independence Day last week in a distinctly somber mood. Anxious about any change in their relations with the U.S., the Israelis sent Foreign Minister Yigal Allon on an American fund-raising tour, which, not incidentally, will enable him to evaluate Washington's "reassessment" of its Middle East policy. Already, the Ford Administration has decided to hold back on sales of the Lance surface-to-surface missile and the F-15 fighter...
...Patterson, 27, a Chicago teacher, wanted to learn German before she takes a trip to Europe this summer. Olga Howard, 86, whose family spoke German when she was a child and who lives in Evanston, Ill., was anxious to teach the language. They both called the Learning Exchange, a service that connects people who want to learn something with people who want to teach it. The women have been meeting once a week ever since, and Mrs. Howard has "high hopes that Dee will be understood when she asks where to check her luggage" upon her arrival in Austria...
...Crimson heavies did not take their poor performance last Saturday lightly. Their new motto is "DECISIVE!" And they are anxious to demonstrate their speed and skill, and decimate anyone this weekend. In their quest to beat Harvard, the Engineers could not have selected a more unfortunate racing date...