Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most classes were canceled during that monthand student strikes blocked avid learners fromentering the few classes that were still beingheld...
...avid tennis player, Roosevelt made forays insquash, football and a variety of sports he hadnever before played--including fencing--in orderto win the Intramural Championships for Weld Hall...
...central-bank job, which paved the way for his appointment as Budget Minister and later Education Minister under Salinas. These days he lives in a comfortable though not ostentatious house in Mexico City, a far cry from his childhood home. With his own five children, Zedillo is an avid mountain biker. Though he has been dismissed as nothing more than a smart technocrat, "it's very difficult to get to Zedillo's level without political talent," says Susan Purcell, vice president of the Americas Society in New York City. "He's intelligent -- and a genuine democrat...
...these avid knitting buffs, nothing quite compares to creating their own clothing from scratch. Gaither values her knitwork as "wearable...
President Clinton's health-care plan was dealt a blow when the influential Business Roundtable of 200 of the country's largest firms endorsed a rival plan sponsored by Tennessee Democratic Representative Jim Cooper -- this despite avid lobbying by the White House. The National Governors' Association, meanwhile, came out in favor of health-care reforms similar to those proposed by Cooper's bill, and the 215,000-member U.S. Chamber of Commerce said President Clinton's plan "cannot even be used as a starting point...