Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York's Empire Buying Service, Owner Jack Brod was importuned by one eager customer to extract his loose, gold-filled tooth on the pot. Brod refused; the man left, but returned a few days later with tooth in hand. Typically, New York Dealer Harry Rodman paid one Maryland dentist $500 for the gold scrap and dust that he had collected with a special vacuum from dental grindings in just two years of practice. Dealers also quietly bought gold fillings from morticians, proving that you can't take it with...
While most Harward students were secluded temporarily from the "real world" to prepare for exams, the proverbial men--and women--on the streets of Cambridge yesterday were eager to offer praise or criticism of the way President Carter is hadling the situation in Afghanistan...
Despite the hazards of being a Western journalist in Iran, Van Voorst is eager to return "when the dust settles." Meanwhile, TIME will use its many other resources to provide the same degree of thorough coverage of events in Iran as is offered in this issue...
...Shah as a stable and valuable ally. Washington was annoyed by the Shah's insistence on raising oil prices at every OPEC meeting, yet that irritation was outweighed by the fact that the Shah was staunchly anti-Communist and a valuable balance wheel in Middle East politics. Eager to build up Iran as a "regional influential" that could act as America's surrogate policeman of the Persian Gulf, the U.S. lent the Shah its all-out support. President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger allowed him to buy all the modern weapons he wanted. Washington also gave...
...Iran will not be insurmountable because "we have had no difficulty buying whatever we want through third par ties." As for reports that the departure of foreign technicians has caused problems in the oil industry, Moinfar declares: "I have piles of applications on my desk from experts who are eager to return...