Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John, Pat's son, who seems to be in his early twenties, sits quietly at the end of the table throughout the conversation, less eager to laud Harvard for its kindness and generosity. "At Eliot and Kirkland House, it's different than it is here," he says. "Over there they treat you like nothing. The kids come in and they don't even speak. They ignore you. They just point or grunt to let you know what they want," he says. The other workers seem disconcerted by this statement. "Well, it's true at some of these other Houses, students...
...public's attention. This is as unusual as it is important, "because everything possible is done to make them think the issue is beyond their comprehension," Wald says, adding that many professors did not support his position. "People in the Biology and Biochemistry department were exceedingly eager--passionately anxious, in fact--to get on with their research," he says...
...trend indicates that women are "eager for a couple of years to find out if this is what they want to do," Belle Brett, a counselor in the RACS office who conducted the poll, said yesterday...
...eager volunteers asked fees ranging from $200 to $10,000. One, who said she wanted to be a good Samaritan, described herself as "white, 23, blonde, green-eyed, slow to anger, strong-willed." Another was a medical student who asked to have her tuition paid for a year. A third was a 28-year-old mother of two who wanted to bear another child, but could not afford to keep it. One letter came from a man who volunteered his girlfriend. There was one drawback to the whole enterprise, however: its legality was questionable...
...billion). On that confident note, he announced last week a bold and imaginative reorganization that in one stroke will supply the automaker with urgently needed cash, give Sweden access to North Sea oilfields and bring in Norway as an energetic junior partner in a new binational corporation. The Norwegians, eager to use their oil riches to develop high-technology industries, called Gyllenhammar's proposal "the deal of the century." Swedish Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin, whose non-Socialist coalition had refused to help Volvo, endorsed the company's plan for saving itself...