Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...I.O.S., Ltd. has dropped as much as 50% in two weeks and shaken public confidence in Cornfeld's $2 billion mutual fund complex, whose shares are sold separately from those of I.O.S. itself. When I.O.S. shares were first offered to the public in Europe at $10 last fall, eager investors quickly bid the price to a peak...
Most black people in New Haven are eager to see the Panthers receive a fair trial. But many agree that large-scale protest may be necessary to bring that about, and they fear that if they demonstrate the police will overreact and begin to use guns...
...sale of Long Island's Newsday first leaked to the press (TIME, March 23), the main opposition came from six minority stockholders (49%), all heirs of the late Alicia Patterson Guggenheim. Emotionally committed to Alicia Patterson's strong sense of local identity and control, they were not eager to submit to absentee landlordship. Last week the majority stockholder (51%), Captain Harry Guggenheim, announced that he had indeed sold, for a reported $33 million. "I believe," said the Captain, that the sale "will assure the independence of Newsday." Said Joseph Albright, one of the minority stockholders...
Governor Reagan opposes the measure because it would require an immediate boost in state sales or income taxes or both, a development that Reagan, running for re-election next year, is eager to avoid. But C.T.A. officials remain hopeful that the Los Angeles strike-and others like it threatened in Oakland, San Francisco, Torrance and several more cities-will galvanize California voters behind Proposition Eight...
...HarBus has been eager to print dissenting columns from members of Afro. Both Chokel and Schmidt have made concerted efforts to attract black reporters to the HarBus and Schmidt finally succeeded, with a story in the April 16 issue which Afro still branded as racist...