Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DISCUSSED this summer, there were two basic problems confronting the innovative faculty, and only time will tell how well they have been solved. First, the incoming students indicated that they were not all that eager to try such new and experimental courses. They wanted the "regular thing," as provost David Dickson said in an interview...
With its lagging sales and debts of at least $100 million, Citroen is eager to hitch up with another auto manufacturer. Charles de Gaulle would like a purely French solution: perhaps a merger of the three major French carmakers, to be called Automobile de France. If that happens, Fiat may be sorely tempted to woo Germany's Volkswagen. Such a combine would dwarf anything that France could put together...
...fall once again raised the question of whether democracy can flourish in Latin America. Its prospects had seldom seemed more promising than when Belaúnde took over the presidency in 1963. He plunged into his tasks vowing to do "twelve years' work in six." Eager to aid Peru's impoverished peasants, he launched a whirlwind campaign to build houses, schools, rural airports and roads. The symbol of his dreams for Peru was a new highway cutting into the trans-Andean forests, each mile of roadway completed opening up 3,500 acres of land...
...would hope that the administration is equally eager for communication and that it is not going to isolate itself. A dialogue can only exist in an atmosphere of mutual respect...
During one of the discussion sessions, a young kibbutznik of 16 or 17 rose and walked over to the banks of the Sea of Galilee, away from the rest of the group. Although reticent at first, he seemed eager to answer questions about his family, life on his kibbutz, and the movement in general...