Word: avidity
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Moore, who attended the conference said he is not actively supporting any candidate. "I'm just an avid watcher of political campaigns," he added...
...Addicted Amateur With gray-black locks dangling in ringlets over his black velvet jacket, Stuart Pivar, 49, resembles an apparition from one of the dark Victorian paintings of which he is an avid collector. A New Yorker who owns several plastics companies, he accumulates paintings and bronzes because "there is nothing more exciting than to have great objects of art around." He concentrates on 19th century academics, pre-Raphaelites and symbolists, because at the time he began collecting 20 years ago they cost relatively little. Hofstra-educated Pivar has steeped himself in his field since then, reading exhaustively and traveling...
...popular series has spawned avid fans--"trekkies"--who number about 35 million, Joan C. Stanley, vice-president of the Boston Star Trek Association said yesterday...
This general principle provides for considerable flexibility. On the one hand, Kennedy was an avid proponent of deregulating the airlines, and he is now sponsoring legislation to deregulate the trucking industry...
...politician above petty party politics. "He knew that it could just put him under, but he sacrificed his political popularity to do something for the country and you don't find that in politicians often," says Cissy Baker, the senator's daughter and one of his most avid supporters. His pro-treaty position, however, was less politically risky than his daughter would have one believe...