Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year. The Syrians, who have had an army in Lebanon since 1976, appear willing to accept their own withdrawal as the price for the pullout of Israeli forces, which are poised only about 20 miles from the Syrian capital of Damascus. Jerusalem, for its part, is anxious to avoid the political and economic burdens of a prolonged occupation in Lebanon. The main difficulty is Israel's demand that 5,000 to 6,000 P.L.O. fighters who remain in northern Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley leave at the same time...
...Congress in the summer of 1981 as a 15-month stopgap measure to help banks and S and Ls attract funds. By last week, as the certificates started to mature, the biggest question in the industry was: Where would investors stash their money next? Courted by bankers who are anxious to roll over the All Savers deposits into other bank investments, and cajoled by brokers and other financial advisers who are eager to snatch the funds away, some 4 million All Savers depositors across the U.S. were bombarded through the week by telephone calls, mailgrams, letters containing glossy brochures...
...investment deals being hawked about Wall Street, none is stranger than a mutual fund that was put on the market last week by Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., the nation's largest brokerage firm. Most professional money managers, Merrill Lynch's included, have been sensibly enough urging investors anxious to take a fling in the market to put their money into stocks of blue-chip companies. But Merrill Lynch brokers now have a way to help investors who hate following the crowd and do not mind a risk or two. They can simply buy shares, at $10 each...
...Israelis also knew that Hobeika wanted to embarrass Amin Gemayel, whom he hated, and that he was involved in a bitter power struggle within the Lebanese Forces. As the man charged with protecting Bashir Gemayel, Hobeika was blamed for the leader's death and thus was anxious to take out his frustrations on someone. The Palestinians, who had fought Gemayel in the past, would turn out to be the victims...
Kohl, on the other hand, is anxious to keep Genscher and the F.D.P. as a counterweight to Strauss, who was defeated handily in the 1980 elections by Schmidt. Kohl knows that governing with the formidable Bavarian at his elbow would be like a dachshund's trying to control a rogue elephant. In addition, Kohl feels that the Christian Democrats need to forge a strong alliance with the F.D.P. if they hope to remain in power for more than one term. Kohl is reported to believe that the conservatives in West Germany today do not hold a "natural" majority, since...