Word: avid
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There's some risk here--that volunteers will be an excuse not to hire armed, trained police for homeland security; that without a solid infrastructure in place to receive them, the most avid volunteers will get frustrated. When I called the Freedom Corps hot line that Bush touted on his promotional tour last week, I got a message saying a representative would be with me shortly. I waited 15 minutes, then gave up. The biggest challenge is always to match the right volunteer to the right task, so that an engineer is building a school, not painting...
...Clancy originally planned to raise money to send Griffin, an avid collector and expert on Irish books and Celtic literature, to Ireland. But the weather there is lousy, according to Griffin, so he decided to head Down Under for a few weeks. Which was fine with the student benefactors...
...first in the U.S. in a quarter-century--his disease was so much at odds with what the experts expected that at first it was attributed to natural causes. Anthrax is common in wild animals and livestock; its spores can live in soil for decades. Stevens was an avid outdoorsman, so maybe he picked up a few spores in the wild--perhaps, as Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson famously suggested at a press conference, from drinking water out of a stream...
...better city. No, this isn't a pitch for Dean Kamen's Segway. New Yorkers are avid pedestrians and steel-nerved riders - a motorized scooter, methinks, offers them too little of either. But it is a pitch for the cities of the future Kamen dreams about - less cars, fresher air, more foot traffic and less sitting in midtown gridlock...
...Berlin could also battle for what he thought he was due. "It took longer to write one of his contracts than a whole script," producer Arthur Freed recalled, adding that, afterward, he'd "give you anything you wanted." Avid to see his name above the title, he demanded and got possessive credit on many of his films: "Irving Berlin's 'On the Avenue,'" "Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas,'" Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies,'" "Irving Berlin's 'There's No Business Like Show Business'" and the grammatically confounding "Irving Berlin's 'Alexander's Ragtime Band.?" Even in the service, he needed...