Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Olivier Dubos was no more eager than any other young French reservist to be called back to the service and sent to Algeria. A towering, 35-year-old reserve lieutenant who held the Croix de guerre for World War II gallantry, Lieut. Dubos was bitterly resentful a year and a half ago when his call-up separated him from his wife, his three children, and a well-paid bank job in Paris. But the massacre of 302 Moslem villagers by the rebel Front de Libération Nationale in the isolated hamlet of Kasba Mechta (TIME, June 10, 1957) changed...
Apparently Ben-Gurion's government was not so much frightened by the Russian note as eager to use the overflight permission as a bargaining lever to force the U.S. and Britain into heeding Israel's feelings. There had also been other pressures on Ben-Gurion besides Russia's. Israel's best Afro-Asian friends-especially Ghana and Burma-made their disapproval clear. Two left-wing parties in Ben-Gurion's coalition were strongly against letting Israel appear too committed to the West. Furthermore, Israel has tried to avoid backing one faction or another among Arab...
Studebaker's five-year carryover period for tax losses starts running out next year. Last week Sonnabend reported that he had nine prospective bridegrooms with combined earnings before taxes of $30 million a year-more than enough, he said, to offset Studebaker's past losses. Sonnabend was eager to get on with the wedding, but Churchill wanted to hold up formal publication of the banns until the company's creditors have approved plans to recapitalize, make the debt load more manageable...
...offered to buy between 51% and 70% of the stock of A. S. Abell Co., which owns the three papers (morning circ. 196,725; evening circ. 214,938; Sunday circ. 317,648), plus the Sun's TV station WMAR. Estimated price for 51% control: $20 million. So eager is Publisher Newhouse to get the prestigious Sunpapers that he might be willing to plunk down more than $40 million for the whole outfit...
Many U.S. firms have discovered that the best and safest method is to buy a partnership in a European firm. Faced with much stiffer competition in the common market, European manufacturers are eager to get U.S. cash and technical know-how to help them meet it. A U.S. firm, on the other hand, can profit from its European partner's intimate knowledge of his market and area...