Word: eager
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...university begin drawing on the enormous prestige it has accumulated over the past three-and-a-half centuries and forge collaborative agreements with major foreign universities? Believe it or not, there are many foreign institutions whose level of instruction measure up to Harvard's. And many of these are eager to cooperate with well-respected American universities. For example, Stanford maintains working relationships with institutions in Paris, Rome, Athens, Berlin and Mexico City...
...ranked as the top seller of comic books but last year was in the No. 4 position. Montgomery, who bought the firm from the Harvey family with money he raised from outside investors, aims to boost circulation 50% in the next two years, to 3 million. He is also eager to market the company's library of 248 motion- picture cartoons from the 1950s and '60s, which would be included in a line of videocassettes. Montgomery, who graduated last year from USC's School of Film and Television, plans to start an animation studio as well. Montgomery may be young...
...task of maintaining the U.S. commercial fleet has strained the ranks of the 50,000 licensed airline mechanics. Carriers are eager to pay wages that range from about $13.50 an hour for newcomers to $20.50 for journeymen. Says Richard Delaney, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers local at Chicago's O'Hare Airport: "The aging fleets take a lot more maintenance work. You need more people. We are growing, but not at a rate that's going to satisfy demand...
Most moved on quickly, eager to complete the 250-mile trek across Austria to their new homeland. Cries of "Free at last!" filled the air as newcomers leaped from their vehicles to kiss the West German asphalt. In Passau, volunteers passed out candy and fruit to sleepy-eyed children, who must have thought they had awakened in the midst of a carnival. "I came for her," said a young father, hoisting his daughter into his arms. "She deserves more than a life in East Germany." The first signs were promising. Because Bonn acknowledges only one German citizenship, the refugees were...
...state has repeatedly criticized Exxon for failing to contain the oil in the days after it was spilled. But officials are less eager to admit that the state did almost nothing to make sure that the oil industry was prepared for a major accident. Over the past ten years, the staff of the state's oil- pollution-control management program was reduced from three people to one. Says Paul O'Brien, who ran the program until one month before the spill: "There weren't enough resources to do the job right. I was stretched pretty thin." After the accident, environment...