They were caught in a no man's land, eager to finish but even more eager to get out of harm's way.
Employers then are even more eager to slash costs and farm out the support work.
But with consumers so used to paying so little, retailers and apparel manufacturers are reluctant to raise prices and have become even more eager to find low-cost countries to produce their goods in, economists say.
With a general election due in September 1998 and unemployment still at a record 11%, the prospect looms of Europe's richest country being run for a year by a floundering government and then giving way to a centre-left alternative even less eager to bring in the reforms so necessary to turn the country round.
Even if we restrict ourselves only to those US based workers there are a quarter of a million people who are unemployed at minimum wage but who are entirely happy, eager even, to work for less than minimum wage.
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Upon encountering sweetness, however, the reaction is an expression resembling a smile followed by licking the lips or even a burst of eager sucking movements.
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The banks' refusal to reprice assets has prevented the market from finding a bottom even as hundreds of eager vulture funds lie in wait (see page 16).
Bush topped this off with a pre-emptive concession: agreement to exchange warm ranch- and-home visits, for which Putin was eager, even before any progress was shown in agreement to scrap the old ABM treaty.
The south-west could only manage a third, even though authorities there are eager to protect greenfield sites.
Even when corporate customers are eager to invest, new technology has a way of reducing demand for more gear.
Even some Republicans have been eager to raise the minimum wage.
Weeks before the latest measures to cool the red-hot market, Mr. Li sold 360 hotel rooms to eager investors, even though such sales are legally murky.
After 15 years of teaching in the Boston Public Schools I still wake up every day eager, and even giddy, to take on this challenge and calling.
Even people who live overseas are eager to pick up American idioms.
Even less surprisingly, Republicans are eager to make that known.
Sources close to the 54-year-old Russian admit he is eager to increase his shareholding even more, although they recognise this will be difficult.
Even the wave of sympathy that brought eager shoppers in from north and south of the border in the first Christmas after the blast has not been repeated in subsequent years - partly due to a rash of bomb hoaxes.
Western governments are clearly eager not to antagonise China, even if they chafe at its foot-dragging.
Even in tough economic times, people are eager to align their values with their career goals.
But it matters even more to people on the ground, eager, perhaps desperate to make their case before the authorities, their boss or their family.
Not because of Charles Dickens adaptations (Little Dorrit notwithstanding) but because a generation ago, viewers were eager to sample, and maybe even embrace, the new stuff the networks were turning out.
The notion of ready-to-die clubs offering their services to unfortunate software millionaires eager to realise their earthly gains worries even some hardened accountants.
Even companies that few would consider high-tech were eager to plant a flag in wearable computing.
Millennials, more than any generation, are eager to understand perspectives that are different, even antithetical, to their own, rather than push them away.
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Thai voters seem eager to give democracy another go -- even if some pols are as likely as ever to buy their way into power.
Helicopter makers have taken strides to make their gear safer than it was 20 years ago, and the government has been eager to reduce the number of deaths in accidents even further.
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It was an eager seller of mortgage securities during the boom, even as its traders were betting on a market slump, fuelling the same allegations of duplicity that Goldman Sachs has faced.
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Few among us will ever trash a hotel room in the way that touring rock stars are known to do--after all, given the lucrative endorsements that top acts now receive from multinational brands eager to protect their images, few performers themselves even behave that way anymore.
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