Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until last week. Then, in Moscow, the London-based auction house Sotheby's staged the first international art auction ever held in the Soviet Union. An eager crowd of 2,000 packed the ballroom of the Sovincenter, a lavish hotel and conference complex usually off limits to Soviet citizens, to gaze on an array of works that in many cases had rarely been exhibited before, much less sold openly. Bidding was restricted to foreigners who could pay with British pounds...
...examples -- what Chinese officials call the Three Obstacles to normalization of relations between the two countries -- are the Soviet Union's deployment of more than 50 divisions along the Chinese northern border, its occupation of Afghanistan and its support for Viet Nam's occupation of Kampuchea. Gorbachev, who is eager to hold a summit with the 83- year-old Deng, has been making, or at least hinting at, concessions on all three issues. Last year the Kremlin removed one division from the Mongolian People's Republic, a Soviet satellite on China's border. In May Moscow began bringing its forces...
...Dukakis was keyed up, eager. "Before we could trot through our set pieces," said one participant, "he was challenging us, picking our brains, pitting us against one another." Among his questions: What was motivating Gorbachev's "new thinking" in foreign policy? Was it mainly domestic economics? Or did Western pressures play a role...
...past successes. Fourteen shows now running in London have been playing for a year or more, and ten of those have already been seen on Broadway. Cuts in government funding have made even the two big subsidized troupes, the National Theater and Royal Shakespeare Company, more eager to spin off shows into long West End and perhaps Broadway runs. Says Labor Member of Parliament Gwyneth Dunwoody: "Anything in the arts that is experimental and potentially unpopular is now much less likely to get done...
...past. The Democrats balloted by computer for the first time four years ago in San Francisco, and when the Republicans gather in New Orleans next month, they will bring with them the usual arsenal of portable computers, cellular telephones and fax machines. But this year the Democrats, eager to portray themselves as the party that champions economic growth through high technology, seem to find pride and political symbolism in the fact that their convention will significantly out tech the Republicans'. "We just really knocked ourselves out to make sure we ended up with a state-of-the-art information system...