Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...never been eager to send its soldiers overseas. Wilson was reluctant to enter World War I. It took the sinking of the Lusitania, at the cost of 128 American lives, to draw him in. Had it not been for Pearl Harbor, America Firsters might have prevailed in keeping the U.S. out of World War II. The Tonkin Gulf incident, in which Washington claimed North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on U.S. warships, provided Lyndon Johnson with a pretext to secure congressional support of the escalation in Vietnam...
...single fax machine connect the ministry with the rest of the world. There are two currency counters and enough calculators to ensure that Kuwait Inc. functions to the proper decimal points. A shredder sits near a large safe, opposite a small television set. But CNN, which everyone is eager to watch, is available only on another TV, two floors up -- a Saudi concession, since the kingdom prohibits the public reception of CNN everywhere else...
...Eager shoppers often line up hours before the 9:30 a.m. daily openings. Some . arrive in car pools, others in chauffeured limousines. "A friend who could afford anything first brought me here," said an Atlanta shopper. Another says enthusiastically, "You can buy three or four gifts on an $85 budget...
Psychologists maintain that they are eager to prescribe because medication is an increasingly powerful tool for relieving mental illness. But some critics see an ulterior motive. They contend that what the two professions are really concerned about is profits. In fact, psychiatrists have reason to worry. From 1982 to 1987, according to one poll, the proportion of counseling visits handled by psychiatrists fell from 36% to 22%, while those by psychologists rose from 29% to 34%. This summer Washington loosened psychiatrists' grip on treatment of the elderly by permitting psychologists to receive reimbursements from Medicare. In addition, the California supreme...
...designated to run in the next general election is black. A local party member, Bill Galbraith, reportedly described nominee John Taylor, 38, a lawyer and a former government adviser on race relations, as "a bloody nigger." Others claimed that the nomination had been "bulldozed" through by a national party eager to elect its first nonwhite representative since...