Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keener obstruction to Bhutto's authority may be the traditional attitudes of Pakistan's Islamic people. Not all are eager to live under the first Muslim government headed by a woman. In the days prior to the election, 40 mullahs issued a fatwa, or religious verdict, warning that a nation headed by a woman cannot prosper and risks falling "into the pit of Western cultural degeneration...
...dozens of places where premium increases show no sign of slowing, Proposition 103 could become a rallying cry. Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization, a Virginia-based group, says he has been "deluged" with calls from drivers eager to have their own states cut rates...
Bush will face a far easier road in foreign affairs. With the exception of a deteriorating situation in Central America, the world map could hardly look friendlier. The Soviets appear eager to ease tensions, improve trade, talk arms control and relieve pressure on their disastrous domestic economy. Bush says he has learned the value of a hard-line, waiting approach from Reagan. He will be more eager than Reagan to exploit the new foreign policy trends in the Soviet Union, though he will be extremely cautious about destabilizing Eastern Europe and prompting a Soviet crackdown...
Fuller, in a telephone interview, said he told Bush in October that "I wanted to return to the private sector." But he said he also told Bush during that conversation that "obviously, I would be eager" to serve as chief of staff, often called the second most powerful position in the White House...
Cornell will lean on its solid returning middle-line players and eager new recruits for a shot at a trip to Boston for the ECAC Championships. Last year a mini-game loss to Clarkson in Ithaca, N.Y., blocked the trip...