Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claims and Control. Most of the tour members, traveling as concerned citizens at their own expense, are principal officers of major business organizations. Together they employ 2,400,000 people and had combined sales in 1968 of more than $55 billion. They went to the Far East as observers eager to sound out Asia's leaders. Led by the publisher, TIME'S delegation included Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, President James A. Linen, Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Managing Editor Henry Grunwald. The tour program was organized by the Time-Life News Service, with Chief of Correspondents Richard...
...supplies 50% of the Army's officers, 20% of the Navy's and 35% of the Air Force's. Army ROTC alone now enrolls 151,000 students on 268 campuses (v. 54 for the Navy and 208 for the Air Force). Many students are so eager for ROTC that next year the Army will add 16 more campuses. A student who signs up is committed to two years' active service as a second lieutenant. One attraction: he can boost his grades by taking relatively easy ROTC courses that carry as much as 30 hours of credit...
...given way to a blue blazer and grey slacks. But the crowd knows him as "God's Man of Faith and Power," and they also know that something powerful is coming. "We need six strong men to help bring out this stretcher," he shouts. Half a dozen eager volunteers spring into the wings to bring out an ambulance stretcher carrying a groaning black woman. "This woman was brought into the hospital this morning with third-degree burns over her body," reads an attending nurse. "She was home, high on dope, when her clothes caught fire in the kitchen...
...looking for other steel companies. By reading annual reports, he became interested in Jones & Laughlin. First there was a correct but tense meeting at the elegant Rolling Rock Country Club outside Pittsburgh, then a secret hotel-room huddle in Cleveland. Though J. & L. Chairman Charles Beeghly was far from eager to sell his controlling shares, he considered Ling's offer so generous?some analysts insist that it was too generous for LTV's good ?that he agreed to go along...
...exam grades are one kind of incentive, but they are not the only kind. To the extent that they operate as an incentive, they also tend to undermine a student's better motives. Students admitted to this law school have been trained to work hard. Most are efficient and eager to add to their understanding of any new, complex subject. Most would feel inadequate and uncomfortable unless they attempted to master the material offered in the first year...