Word: eager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who watched from below the serene encampment piled up more and more questions the longer the seminars ran. "A yellow-pad President," said Republican Howard Baker, an eager though undeclared candidate for the job. But he had a point that haunted many. It was estimated that Carter's notes ran to hundreds of pages. From such a mishmash of people, prejudice and points of view, how can an executive distill any rational policy in so short a time? Many thought he could not, that this was another demonstration of Carter's mistaken idea of how an executive...
...Senior John Rich, 20: "When people found out the police were coming up, they made jokes like 'How can you teach them Spanish when they need to learn English first?' Their visit helped us see them as people." Added Dartmouth Junior Anthony Lotson: "They're very eager to learn...
...Eager to expand his business, Christopher met in 1974 with Lloyd's Broker Peter Nottage and persuasively proposed an idea for a computer-leasing policy that the underwriters eventually accepted. Under it, if corporations or government agencies broke a lease after the obligatory noncancellation period, Lloyd's underwriters would pay the leasing company any balance due to the bank on the purchase price of the computer. With this magical policy, Christopher found it easy to persuade banks to lend him the huge sums that he needed to buy computers. The company or agency that leased the equipment agreed...
Back in the U.S., the President faces a Congress eager to take some kind of action on energy, but sadly confused as to what to do, and a bewildered and increasingly frightened public. Carter will surely make another strong pitch for a standby gasoline-rationing program and his windfall-profits tax on oil companies, to accompany the decontrol of domestic oil prices that he hopes will arrest the decline in U.S. oil output. That scarcely adds up to a sweeping program. Unhappily, the only group that seems to have a clear idea of how it wants to manage the energy...
Students can work with a choreographer in action, see their own teachers perform, and perform themselves, Fangar said, while the teachers can experiment on many eager bodies. The Summer School appreciates the activities generated by the dance program, she added...