Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is needed, say critics, is personal leadership by the President to straighten out the SBA, coordinate the tangle of Government programs and enroll the assistance of bankers and other private businessmen. The businessmen seem eager, if only given direction from Washington, to provide markets and managerial help. Indeed, so successful is the National Alliance of Businessmen, which was founded during the Johnson Administration to find jobs for the hard-core unemployed, that Nixon might consider starting a National Alliance of Enterprise through which experienced businessmen could coordinate public and private efforts to get black capitalism going...
...countries, Ceausescu welcomed the President's opening remarks. The prime benefit of these relations to Rumania, of course, has been a sharp increase in trade with the West -up 25% in the past four years. It was on this subject that Ceausescu became quite specific: he is eager for Rumania to gain most-favored-nation trading status in the U.S. Congress alone can grant such status (Yugoslavia and Poland are the only Eastern European nations that now have it), and legislators may be reluctant to add Rumania so long as Bucharest continues to be a chief supplier of goods...
Actress Jacqueline Bisset was not eager to belt a 68-year-old grandmother in the face, but the old woman was not one bit impressed by her deferential pat on the cheek. "You'll have to hit me harder than that, dear, if the scene's going to work." So Helen Hayes took a good smash from Miss Bisset-and the scene worked. Back in Hollywood, after a 13-year absence, for the filming of Arthur Hailey's bestseller Airport, the great lady of the stage still scorns a standin. In her role as chronic stowaway...
...gain in almost two weeks. In the week's final two days, it jumped 23 points, to close at 827. The rally at first was fired by false rumors that banks planned to reduce their 81% prime interest rate. Brokers called the rebound a sign that investors were eager to jump at almost any chance that the oversold market might reverse itself. Few were willing to predict, however, that the long slide had ended...
...beneath it advertised extra-large cantaloupes at three for 89?. A Long Island harness-racing track accompanied a picture of an astronaut stepping off the base of an LM mockup with the advice: "Hey, finish it later-Roosevelt Raceway opens tomorrow night." TWA and Pan Am eagerly accepted a spurt of new applications for the first commercial flights to the moon; one recent booking was made by California's Governor Ronald Reagan. Medals, pennants and assorted trinkets suddenly developed a moon motif-and found hordes of eager customers...