Word: eager
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Petroleum Exporting Countries and a member of the Iraqi exile group that met in Washington, tells TIME that it could take five years or more before Iraq can boost its output above levels first achieved more than two decades ago. And it will require the participation of foreign investors eager to repatriate profits from an Iraq mired in poverty and in desperate need of capital. "Rebuilding the oil industry is the only way to finance Iraq's return to democracy and some sort of prosperity," Chalabi says, "and it must be done to benefit the Iraqi people...
...made clear to the Bush Administration its fear that postwar Iraq will pump too much oil, lowering the world price below $18 per bbl.--the level at which Russia's oil companies can no longer make a profit. That has led some industry officials to believe that Washington, eager to secure Moscow's approval for military action in Iraq, has quietly agreed to keep prices from falling too low and to help Russian oil companies win contracts in the new Iraq...
...members of Congress and Senators who voted last fall to allow George Bush to use force against Iraq, only one had a child serving in the enlisted ranks of the military. Would Congress and the American public be so eager to wage war if everyone's son and daughter might be called to fight? Charles Rangel, the veteran Democratic Congressman from New York, doesn't think so. Complaining that the military's all-volunteer force has left the risks of combat largely to minorities and the poor, who are more likely to join the military for a better job, Rangel...
...wants in. According to 8 Garden Street, the ranks of applicants this year swelled to over 20,000—that’s more than the total of Anglo and allied forces who gave their lives to defend civilization in the Battle of Waterloo. These young ones are eager to enlist, but are they prepared to join us in fighting for the common cause of students, faculty and administrators alike: defending the innocence and emptiness of our speech? We guard the border between ourselves and meaning with think-tanks from which we fire blanks wildly at will...
...name is called by a young man quick to identify himself as “the producer.” She is led down windy stairs to a mirror-lined dance studio with three others actors, all making small talk. Her thoughts remain a mystery behind her too-eager smile...