Word: eager
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most foreign bankers have greeted Menem's plan with hedged optimism. But since Argentina has failed to keep up its payments to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, neither agency is eager to issue fresh credits without some proof of economic progress. "What's announced on paper can be very different from the results," said a U.S. credit analyst...
...summit, he asked America's industrial allies to make similar contributions to Poland and Hungary. The group agreed to hold a meeting in a few weeks to discuss both financial aid and support for reforms in the two countries, underscoring that the European Community is increasingly more able and eager to help guide potential changes in the Communist bloc. "Leadership in Europe on these questions belongs to the E.C., both by right and by their record of success," said investment banker Robert Hormats, a former top State Department official...
Shamir's move jeopardized his fragile coalition with the rival Labor Party and threatened to strain relations with a Bush Administration eager to get peace talks under way. Charging that Likud had "put heavy handcuffs on the peace process," Finance Minister Shimon Peres fumed, "Shamir can agree to Sharon's dictates, but the Labor Party will not." Party politicians pressed their leaders to bolt the coalition and force new elections. But Labor's popular appeal is dwindling, so the party leadership is expected to give the wounded peace plan one more chance...
Among its many virtues, From Beirut to Jerusalem shows why messengers from the Middle East who try to remain impartial will find many factions eager to throttle them. The place lives and dies on faith and mythology; a mere fact is useless, possibly dangerous, until it has been modified to fit within a dogma. Most of the region's bloodiest episodes during the '80s, the author argues, arose from failures to recognize complex realities...
...until 80 minutes later did an answer arrive at Bodo: the Soviets declined help, obviously not eager to have foreigners, especially military men from a NATO country, clambering on their sub or plucking their sailors from the sea. Later in the day, Soviet officials revealed that an air seal in the cooling unit of one of the vessel's nuclear reactors had ruptured. By that time, the stricken sub, an Echo II-class vessel with a crew of about 90 and believed to be carrying eight nuclear missiles, had begun crawling eastward under auxiliary diesel power, escorted by a Soviet...