The decision had long been feared by preservationists eager to save a slice of Los Angeles history.
He feared that Russian soldiers, eager to return home to share in the distribution of looted land, would topple his regime if it continued the war.
The foundation's move to allow rules to be adopted by four members, rather than requiring a supermajority of the seven members, reverses a decision made in 1990, when the board was under pressure from corporations that feared it was too eager to change rules.
In fact, during negotiations over the Grand Bargain, he alienated important segments of his own party who feared he was too eager to compromise, although he ultimately secured their endorsement of a potential agreement.
Investors fear that auditors, eager for their colleagues to win consulting business, will fail to look critically at the books of corporate clients.Indeed, the sheer complexity of the new accounting-consulting conglomerates demands that two questions be reconsidered.
That was clear at last year's G8 summit in St Petersburg, when Mr Putin mocked Mr Bush over Iraq, and Tony Blair over a corruption scandal.Thus emboldened, the Kremlin is now as eager to be feared as liked.
In contrast to his practice in past years, John Paul was celebrating Christmas Eve Mass outside in the colonnaded square, rather than inside the basilica -- too small a space, he feared, for Holy Year crowds eager to see him.
Not to fear: Those eager to get a taste of Indias shoreline have plenty of options.
Gleb O. Pavlovsky, a political consultant who worked with the Kremlin until last year, said top officials were eager to crack down but feared provoking a new wave of dissent.
After I'd finished and stepped away from the podium, I knew why politicians, authors and activists were eager to do what everyone else in the world feared.
