Word: interest
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That it's not a fully bespoke limo may turn off some customers, Newton says. "There is a risk of losing that exclusivity," he says. Perhaps. But some 1,200 potential buyers have already expressed "strong interest" in the Ghost, according to the company. About 85% of those people would be first-time customers, which indicates that the company is indeed mining new territory, since typically 37% of Rolls-Royce buyers already own one of the cars - or more...
...Northfield Mount Hermon (Mount Hermon, Mass.) rising senior held offers from every Ivy League school and received serious interest from major programs such as Stanford, Notre Dame, and Virginia...
...intense interest in the Gates case is not surprising—the bitter irony of a man renowned for his erudite scholarship on race becoming the victim of alleged racial profiling turns what would otherwise be a forgotten jot in a police blotter into a centerpiece of the conversation on race in America...
...October 2001. The Afghan government is salted with corruption, while its prisons are hellholes that turn citizens against their government. Pakistan remains a safe haven for launching attacks against U.S. and NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan, and despite the Obama Administration's strenuous efforts at persuasion, Islamabad shows little interest in extending its campaign against domestic extremism into a fight against the Afghan insurgency...
...idea of what influence means may well be different from Washington's. Nations should be allowed to choose their partners, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said, but "it is important that this be done transparently, without under-the-carpet games and not at the expense of others' interests." United Russia's Markov said Russia does not want a sphere of influence, but that historically, Russia has a "privileged interest" in Georgia and Ukraine and that in order for U.S.-Russian relations to be reset, "the U.S. has to recognize Russia's legitimate interests - that Russia has the right...