Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other stock (i.e., publicly owned) insurance companies, not so sure that interest rates are turning permanently higher-or even that older people are now better risks-were not eager to follow Connecticut General's lead. Most mutual companies, e.g., Prudential and Metropolitan, would probably do nothing, since they have already been cutting rates, in effect, by increasing dividends to policyholders. But stock life-insurance companies, which generally, pay no dividends to their policyholders, will probably have to lower their rates soon, or lose business...
...Chapman blocked the loan. Chapman did not like some things he had heard about the Harvey company's work for the Navy during World War II. Bitter at the turndown, Harvey grudgingly went to the giant Anaconda Copper Mining Co. with a proposal. He knew that Anaconda was eager to find a steady source of aluminum for its fabricating subsidiaries. Would Anaconda like to buy control of the subsidiary Harvey had set up in Montana for his aluminum project? Anaconda would; it bought 95% of Harvey's subsidiary and got Harvey's contract for electric power from...
...students are looking for Finno-Ugrian Philology; fewer yet are interested in Quasi Psychologic Systems; no one is studying Hyperborean. For eager researchers, however, the Farmington Plan has filled Widener's shelves with recent volumes on these subjects...
...interest in a plan whereby foreign money and foreign management might be brought in to help operate the nationalized oil industry. This was a project tentatively put forward by the World Bank. The British were sympathetic, the U.S. was interested, and a Mossadegh spokesman said that he was "eager" to talk it over. The idea was still shapeless, clouded by ifs, and regarded with suspicion on the basis of past disappointments, but it was the only sign of hope around...
...Manhattan, where he received the Touchdown Club's annual award, Old Fan Douglas MacArthur viewed with alarm the present state of U.S. football. "My only concern," he said, "is that it does not fall within the eager clutches of rapidly expanding federal controls. If I were to give you but one word of warning, it would be to keep football and, for that matter, all other sports, free of governmental bureaucratic regulations . . . The game would no longer be a sport; it would be another of our lost freedoms, a plaything of selfish politics, a helpless adjunct to a creeping...