Word: eagerness
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...dining-turned-dance hall, the music quieted so Summers could make a brief speech to the freshmen in attendance. The president welcomed them to the study break and thanked the dining staff for preparing treats for the annual shindig. But just a minute into his speech, Summers seemed eager to finish up and get jiggy with it. “I think it’s time to get back to the music,” he said, stepping onto the dance floor with New as the Black Eyed Peas sounded through the cavernous hall. Gretchen M. Krueger...
...long lull around the Dec. 15 election, the terrorists have struck with deadly effect, killing nearly 150 people in two bombings on Thursday alone. For a few weeks, many Iraqis had felt able to lower their guard just a bit-parks, playgrounds, teahouses and restaurants were full of families eager to take advantage of the all-too-short winter. Now, those public places will again be deserted as people retreat fearfully to their homes...
Most people admit they're unprepared. Surveys report that 40% of Americans are saving nothing for retirement. Fewer still have gone to the trouble of assembling a financial plan, despite the megamillions spent by financial-services companies eager to explain how complex and daunting our post-career lives will be. Financial consultants feel as if they're whistling in the wind, lamenting that their same-old, same-old message--save! don't spend! plan now!--is widely ignored. So many advisers are changing their approach, talking less about money and more about meaning: how financial planning can address a person...
...division. But to a foreign reader his apparent conviction that the malign influence of Westerners should absolve Korean participants of their own guilt in the bloodshed is perplexing. This sentiment?it could be summed up as "the foreign devils made them do it"?may be comforting to Korean readers eager to overcome the burdens of their tortured history. But Hwang's determination to smooth over the ugliness of the past may doom his book to a far less enthusiastic reception abroad than it earned at home...
...saying so very loudly. In Washington, the State Department urged both Moscow and Kiev to reach a compromise in the gas-price talks. Spokesman Adam Ereli allowed only that the dispute "is a question of energy supply that we and the Europeans are all following closely." Indeed, Putin seems eager to secure Western political influence at high levels: last month, he persuaded former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to become chairman of a company building a new gas pipeline from Russia to Western Europe that will bypass Ukraine by going under the Baltic Sea. Putin also offered...