Word: eagerness
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...While ISS doesn?t appear eager to discuss its defense work, a press release issued last fall offers some details. The release states that ISS ?will be responsible for providing all the logistics requirements of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships in ports throughout the [Middle East] region.? The release also notes that ISS may be asked to provide services for U.S. military training exercises and ?contingency operations inland.? ISS?s partner for those services? None other than KBR, the division of Halliburton - Vice President Dick Cheney?s old firm - that has won billions of dollars in contracts...
...should set a level of expectation commensurate with their desire to help freshmen. We hope that the Student Advisory Board that meets to decide the fate of freshmen advising will buck this Staff’s position and ask for a greater commitment from the body of individuals eager to interact with and aid freshmen. Doing this means combining the functions of social and academic advising into one comprehensive program. Dividing the academic and social realms of advising will confuse freshmen and duplicate the shortcomings of the Prefect Program in what will inevitably become a second underutilized and ill-defined...
...Crimson sees itself as one of the top teams in New England and is eager to measure itself against a storied program from a baseball hotbed like Florida. But climate and conference concerns play a major role in this meeting. The Gators, to their decided advantage, already have 17 games under their belts, playing in the warmer weather of the Southeast and without the late starting dates Ivy League teams are forced to negotiate...
...Minister Lal Krishna Advani announced he would he embarking on a "yatra," a cross between a march and a pilgrimage, to protest the pandering to "minorities" - meaning Muslims - that he said had led to the bombings. Moreover, as relations with Pakistan warm, India's nationalist hawks are all too eager to find another "anti-India" bogeyman in the rising Islamic fundamentalist movement in India's its eastern neighbor, Bangladesh. Nor is the absence of a riot much to celebrate. But given the subcontinent's bloody, sectarian history, it's a start...