Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Citizen's Thursdays have been an immense popular success. So, too. was Romney's thrust to make sure of Detroit's selection as the official U.S. choice for the site of the 1968 Olympic Games. Confronted with eager competition from Los Angeles, Romney swiftly steered through the legislature two bills enabling Michigan to raise the funds and build the necessary facilities. Armed with the new legislation, he sped to New York to present Detroit's case before the U.S. Olympic Committee. The winner: Detroit (which must now compete with several cities in other countries...
What really had Washington and Bonn concerned was London's next move. Brit ain, excluded for now from the Common Market and plagued by serious unemployment, was eager for export markets anywhere; if one inch of large-diameter oil pipe was delivered to Russia, the NATO boycott would be broken. West Germany and Italy could no longer be restrained. Neither could France, which has a massive (500,000 tons), and mostly unused, annual capacity for pipe production, but which supports the U.S. completely on the allies' debate over the strategic value of Moscow's Big Inch...
...first state visit outside Africa to demonstrate that Morocco, though officially unaligned, knows that its real interest lies with the West. Indeed, in the two years since his father died, Hassan has proved to be a sensible leader of Morocco's 11.6 million people, and Hassan was eager to talk about his achievements...
...trading up to better houses, know precisely what they want and demand more for their money. What many want is two-story houses, which are better buys than rambling ranches because they occupy less land (prices for lots have jumped an average 190% since 1947). Buyers are also less eager these days for picture windows, which add to bills for heating and draperies...
...product succumbs to newer, better or flashier things. The race to get to the consumer first has forced companies to shorten their product development time, and in some cases has actually made the product secondary in the sweat to sell it. Chicago's Alberto-Culver was so eager to beat Procter & Gamble's Head and Shoulders shampoo to market that it filmed the TV commercials for its Subdue shampoo even before it had developed the product...