Word: avid
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Appel and O'Brien concentrated in history and literature, which is honors-only. According to Appel, O'Brien was an avid reader who was "interested in ideas...
...daughter, Jenn, 12, and a son, Jeffrey, 11, both avid soccer players. Pictures of them adorn her office, sharing space with the results of recent medical surveys...
...attended opera performances and symphony concerts, visited museums, and most persistently, became an avid ballet fanatic. Gorey later recalls choreographer George Balanchine as one of the most important influences in his life. At one point, Gorey attended not only each of Balanchine's ballets, but every performance of every show...
...remember the first 800-word essay I wrote. It was my fourth grade pet report, which I chose to do about horses. An avid horse lover, I came into this project fresh from two years of scouring the school library, the public library and any bookstores within walking distance for every tidbit of equine knowledge available in print. The 800-word limit seemed hugely unreasonable--I had so much to explain. How could a subject which occupied my entire bookshelf at home be reduced to four double-space pages of loosely cursive script...
...This year, for example, TV set-top boxes that, for $100 to $200 each, can turn a television set into a computer screen are due to appear in Brazil. Wireless broadband expansion will turn Brazil's ubiquitous cell phones into tiny screens. "Latin Americans have been early and avid adopters of technology," says Antonio Bonchristiano, CEO of the e-commerce company Submarino.com "The key to growth is the cost of a Web device...