Word: eagerness
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...acting like the opposition," says political scientist Dominique Reynié of Sciences Po. Adding to the turbulence, last week Villepin sued three authors for libel over claims linked to the murky Clearstream affair, then let his frustration boil over in the face of charges that he was too eager to protect embattled EADS co-ceo Noël Forgeard in the face of expensive Airbus production delays and an investigation into the propriety of stock sales. When Socialist leader François Hollande said Villepin inspired "no confidence," the Prime Minister summoned his most arrogant tone, saying: "I denounce...
...President could recall so clearly something Tenet himself didn't remember saying," Susskind writes, and felt the White House was setting him up as a "fall guy" for the bad intelligence that many in the CIA believed came from the Pentagon and members of Vice President Cheney's staff eager to overthrow Saddam...
...five largest markets. According to tech-consulting firm Gartner, mobile-phone sales in India grew 42% in 2005 to nearly 30 million units, and sales are expected to quadruple by 2009. With so much potential, Nokia decided India was the best option for a new factory. "We became eager to get closer and closer to India," says Jukka Lehtela, director of Nokia's operations there...
...Enter Shortz, nearly 40 years younger than Maleska, and eager to revive the Times' most carefully studied page. A John XXIII to Maleska's Pius XII, Shortz embraced the modern: slang, hipper pop references, more devious wordsmanship. He also instituted a sliding scale of difficulty for the puzzle week: the easiest one on Monday and Tuesday, the most challenging on Friday and Saturday...
...year-olds by only 2 percentage points, but recent polls show Kerry with a double-digit lead among the young. (The race is a virtual tie overall.) Of course, very few conservative students will vote for Kerry, but most of the kids who attended the conference didn't seem eager to become field troops for the President either. As National Review editor Rich Lowry noted on the conservative magazine's website the day after he spoke at the conference, "What was most notable about this year was just how many smart young conservatives out there seem to think that there...