Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several oil companies were eager to set up their equipment on drilling platforms offshore and start hammering away. The city said no-until someone came up with a bright new way to do the drilling behind a screen of camouflage that would make a Hollywood set designer envious...
Reluctance & Fear. Most of the fault for the delay lies with the Jordanian government, which was eager to see the refugees go, but inefficient about helping them on their way. To make matters worse, many approved applicants got cold feet when it came their turn, either out of reluctance to live under Israeli rule, or for fear that they might be cut off from remittance checks sent to them by relatives working in the high-paying oil fields of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. All of which caused the refugee flow to slow to a trickle. But for the time...
...considerable power in shaping Britain's economic destiny. A left-of-center intellectual, Shore is a former research chief for the Labor Party who first began helping Wilson in 1955. An economist (as is Wilson), Shore becomes the youngest member of the Cabinet. In the past, he was eager to nationalize more British industry; as an M.P., he even introduced a somewhat peevish bill to compel company directors to divulge their incomes. But Shore's current prescription for economic uplift is hard to fault. Last week he was touting "the three Rs"-"Reorganizing industry, getting rid of weakness...
...also be able to handle the anthropology, economics, politics and history of that confusing country. That particular blend of ability and interest has been scarce, and it takes about ten years to train such a scholar.* The war itself, Fairbank notes wryly, should produce some men who are eager to study the area-but by the time they are ready to teach, the whole matter, hopefully, will once again be academic...
...deposed him. Webster insists that he has the guns and money to go it alone. And the West Indies are alive with rumors that he is being besieged with offers of help from underworld types anxious to establish a gambling haven, land developers, and a Greek shipping magnate eager to fly the Anguillan flag (two mermaids holding a seashell, a spear and an olive leaf) as a cost-cutting flag of convenience. Evidence to back up the rumors is as elusive as the eel for which French explorers named Anguilla 400 years ago. The only hard fact is that...