Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that more and more colleges have heartlessly decided that undergraduate admissions are simply not competitive or difficult enough. Despite surges in applications each year and a nationwide frenzy to get into the best schools, many of these institutions beckon eager high school applicants with the "tough love" approach; they figure they'll make college admissions as difficult as possible, and then the student's acceptance will be that much sweeter...
...With more than $12 million in federal matching funds and, perhaps, a chance to be in the presidential debates, the party's nomination is the stage for an angry voice. There's no ideological price of admission. The party, founded by Perot, welcomes earnest centrists eager for entitlement reform as well as anti-new world order conspiracists. So each potential candidate, from the hard left to hard right, can justifiably see it as terra firma...
...elected in what everyone hopes will be the first-ever peaceful transfer of power next June. The scandals are potent political fodder not only because they discredit Yeltsin but also because they fit into a popular Russian myth that the U.S. somehow engineered the country's woes. As eager as Russians are to blame their own tainted leaders, they also point an accusatory finger at Washington for their failures...
...about the money. If you're an eager 28-year-old business-school graduate and you believe the Internet is going to be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, why not try to become Henry Ford? If you're an entrepreneur, why waste your time in the old world, worrying about manufacturing things and dealing with unions and OSHA inspections, when you can put your company online in three months? Why have a boss when you and three buddies can build your own publicly traded company in two years? Windows this big don't open very often. That's the reason...
Both sides were eager to distance themselves from an article in yesterday's Globe, which played up tensions between tenants and Harvard...