Word: eagerness
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...that far back under Lukashenko's decade-long reign. And a bloody backlash at some point remains a serious possibility; despite all his bravado, Lukashenko is cornered and nervous. The election, he said soon after, had "convincingly demonstrated who is the master of our house." And he isn't eager to hand over the keys...
...massive trade deficit which, in theory at least, is eventually supposed to drive the greenback's value down. Moreover, at a moment when the U.S. needs China's help in the U.N. Security Council to bring Iran's nuclear program to heel, U.S. President George W. Bush is plainly eager to finesse the trade issue as best he can. Asked a leading question at a press conference about trade with China earlier this month, Bush not only didn't take the bait, but offered a crisply cogent description of the economic reality Hu faces every morning: "Listen," Bush said, "China...
...glare of Jack Abramoff's indictment has highlighted many of the capital's more unsavory habits, and members of Congress have been eager, in an election year, to make a show of throwing away their perks. No junkets; no booze cruises; they will take a lunch only if it's a Happy Meal. But politics stops at the bedroom's edge. Post-Abramoff Sudden Virtue Syndrome has yet to result in a ban on the world's most obvious conflict of interest, one that is, in the words of Public Citizen director Frank Clemente, "way up there on the unseemly...
...Food is eager not to repeat the mistakes of Big Tobacco, and it knows that self-regulation is one way to keep the government from stepping in. What worries the food industry most are the lawsuits that have begun to move through the courts, often going where politicians fear to tread. One key question is whether public-health advocates will succeed in sticking the food industry with one of the charges that damned the tobacco business: that its executives knowingly harmed the health of the public--especially children--with their marketing tactics. Of course, Big Tobacco had the additional problem...
...confront his critics has made it that much harder for those who shared some of his views. More than his departure, I regret that he failed to set students a better example of how a person can stand up for his opinions. My colleagues say they are now eager to get on with the business of curricular reform that they subordinated for several years to the task of expelling President Summers. The most crucial reform would require ensuring greater intellectual diversity among those who teach the students. The dearth of conservative views (most of which were liberal views when...