Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been open less than a week and there are so many people here," Nashat T. Masri '93 said last week. "I just bought a pair of tennis shoes--the prices seem reasonable, and the people are eager to help...
...city of refugees. More than 100,000 had fled, and 250,000 remained, encamped in parks and fields. Rich and poor alike stood in line at improvised soup kitchens and mess halls. Policemen, soldiers and armed citizens proved all too eager to act on Mayor Eugene Schmitz's order to shoot looters. A few miscreants were killed, and ordinary citizens were forced at gunpoint to work in the cleanup. America and most of the civilized world mourned what ranks as one of the greatest calamities suffered by a U.S. city. In the New York Sun, Will Irwin wrote a eulogy...
Thus, when the World Psychiatric Association met in Athens last week, one of the most controversial issues on its agenda was whether to readmit Soviet psychiatrists, who resigned in 1983 rather than face expulsion for human- rights abuses. Eager for acceptance, the Soviets made an eleventh-hour acknowledgment that "previous political conditions in the U.S.S.R. created an environment in which psychiatric abuse occurred for nonmedical, including political, reasons...
...industry cools off, entrepreneurs are no longer so eager to enter the business and can no longer so readily get financing. Many venture capitalists are shunning computer companies, largely because of mounting losses on recent start-ups. Says Houston venture capitalist Edward Williams: "Compaq and Apple -- those opportunities in hardware have come and gone. It's too risky at the moment. It's an industry that's maturing." Adds Sematech's Noyce: "Nobody's going to be very interested when the last people in it got stung." According to Venture Economics, a market-research firm, the number of computer-hardware...
Victor Afanasyev and Vladislav Starkov are both journalists, but they're unlikely ever to share a byline. As editor of the gray-tinged daily Pravda, Afanasyev, 66, has been less than eager to rush into print any of the startling revelations or investigative spadework that has become the hallmark of glasnost. On the other hand, Starkov, 50, oversees the weekly tabloid Argumenty i Fakty, whose sharp prose and readers' letters more often than not dwell on the changes sweeping the country, and helped make the paper the most widely read in the Soviet Union. Yet last week both men faced...