Word: avidity
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Kravis' entry in turn aroused the interest of one after another of the wheelers and dealers of Wall Street, all avid for a piece of the action. After numerous bids, counterbids, leaks, secret phone calls, threats, pizzas, lies, midnight meetings, attempted bribes, snide remarks about cigarette smoke, and stabs in the back, Kravis landed the company for $7.4 billion more than Johnson had initially offered, and Johnson got to open a $53 million golden parachute and take a hike...
...decades by a succession of zealous but nonviolent splinter groups, that was seized at last by a charismatic and combustible leader. The son of a single mother, Koresh was born Vernon Howell in Houston in 1959. Growing up in the Dallas area, he was an indifferent student but an avid reader of the Bible who prayed for hours and memorized long passages of Scripture. He also played guitar -- not badly by some reports -- using rock music as well as his magnetic preaching to recruit followers. Some of the spartan interiors in the Waco compound were decorated with posters...
...deep wells of melancholy and self-doubt, actually committed suicide or was in some way immolated on the altars of a sexist art world. But she wasn't an art martyr, and this sort of lumpen-feminist romanticism is totally beside the point of Hesse's life. She was avid to live and knew that the cancer was killing her just at the moment that her work was reaching its full eloquence. This knowledge was unbearable, but she refused to let it paralyze her as an artist...
Having Newbury Comics as a neighbor has helped as well, Wali says. Many avid comic book readers, who are usually also sci-fi fans, make a bee-line straight to Man from Atlantis, Spider-Mans and Batmans in hand...
Although the team may not be having an outstanding season, Garcia makes sure the team has fun on the court. An avid fan of Lyle Lovett and country-western dancing, Garcia does not leave her Texan pride behind when she steps on the court. "She's been trying to teach us all how to two-step at practice," sophomore Judy Iriye says...