1.   As a young designer, Bill Blass traveled the country eager to meet his customers in the American heartland and learn about their tastes and needs.

2.   Global supplies are strong, pushed by Russia and other countries eager to improve their financial positions.

3.   It no longer separates two hostile countries eager to destroy one another.

4.   Jordan is perhaps the Arab country most eager to assist President Bush in the war on terror.

5.   She was young, female and Western-educated, a seemingly perfect leader for a country eager to be taken seriously as an emerging power.

6.   The clash between national identity and the homogenized political values of a newly integrated Europe is found in other countries eager to be let in.

7.   They opened the Mideast to the fox of political intervention by Russia, France and other countries eager for Arab contracts.

8.   Where does that leave Mexico and other countries eager to short-circuit the development process by attracting foreign capital?

9.   Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria are among many countries eager to join.

10.   Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are widely expected to become the first of the many eager eastern European countries to join the Western defense alliance.