Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have good reason to be excited," said Coach Frank Haggerty. "We were disappointed at Heps and now we're eager to do something a little more to our liking...
...their homes, contained illegal software to download. The precious phone numbers of these BBSes were passed around among friends in a sort of Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise. Information was not withheld for selfish reasons, but disseminated among everybody in order to spread computer intelligence. His prose makes a family concept continually come to mind throughout the middle of the book, which humanizes a cold technology...
...Still, her backers will be eager to put a positive spin on the deal. And within the Jones camp, spokeswoman Susan Carpenter McMillan has won a significant victory over her longtime rivals at the Rutherford Institute and the Dallas law firm Rader, Campbell, Fisher & Pyke, all of whom were threatening to walk out after concluding an appeal of the Jones case dismissal. It was only when McMillan's husband, Bill, got involved in negotiations that a deal was brokered. Indeed, it came as a surprise to many that a settlement could be reached at all in the wake of midterm...
...tour has become the most popular program on ESPN2, drawing well among young male viewers as well as those in their 40s and 50s. And NASCAR's TV ratings are now second only to those of the NFL. This fragmentation of the sports audience has attracted advertisers and sponsors eager to grab a larger share of the $700 billion spent each year by young males. "Right now, if you're looking for the young male demographic, you have to look outside the traditional sports," says Bob Igiel, director of the ad agency Media Edge. Sponsorship revenue for extreme sports...
American actors and baseball players had been this famous before and would be more so; Ernest Hemingway was, but no painter was or would be again--not even Andy Warhol. Eager to curate his own reputation, Pollock let photographers in and performed for them. Hans Namuth, Rudy Burckhardt and Arnold Newman saw a drama in Pollock's mating dance around the canvas on the floor that normally isn't present in a painter's address to his work. It was solipsistic and histrionic at the same time--broody like Brando, vulnerable like James Dean. Pollock's fate was pure stardom...