Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outside the office, Galeota was an avid coin collector and expert on ancient coins. He began his hobby as a small child in Columbia...
...wealth amounts to just 46.9 acres of land, plus $2.4 million in savings, and he went on television on Friday to tell the nation he has done nothing wrong. His lawyers informed TIME that he intended to file suit for "false" charges that "defamed and humiliated" him. But an avid public savored details confirming suspicions of corruption and private profiteering that have swirled around the Suhartos for decades. On Friday, protesters demanding the former President be put on trial clashed with police. Attorney General Andi Muhammad Ghalib, who oversees an official inquiry into the family's wealth that has been...
...academia rather than on the trading floor. A product of the Cambridge crowd of economists--proponents of the so-called Third Way of economic policy, a sort of free-market advocacy with a social conscience--he taught at Harvard for 10 years. A father of three and an avid tennis player--he's a hard-serving, hard-hitting sort of player, as opposed to Greenspan and his cagey spin serves--Summers is a former cancer patient, found to have Hodgkins disease in 1983. He underwent a year of chemotherapy before battling the disease into remission...
...Being an avid Star Wars fan, I found myself in good company. As we stood in line, customers debated how the toys would be set up, which action figures would be more rare than others and their excitement at the imminent release of the film itself. One fellow had just come off the plane from Colorado, where the Lucasfilm-sponsored Star Wars Celebration convention. Another fan strolled up and down the line dressed as Darth Vader, waving a toy light saber menacingly at the laughing crowd. Of course, this was a mere taste of the chaos that will surround ticket...
...Being an avid Star Wars fan, I found myself in good company. As we stood in line, customers debated how the toys would be set up, which action figures would be more rare than others and their excitement at the imminent release of the film itself. One fellow had just come off the plane from Colorado, where the Lucasfilm-sponsored Star Wars Celebration convention. Another fan strolled up and down the line dressed as Darth Vader, waving a toy light saber menacingly at the laughing crowd. Of course, this was a mere taste of the chaos that will surround ticket...