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Word: eager (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works as a pyramid scheme, just like blue-green algae. If you get someone to sign up on your plan, you get rebates off your bills. He likens it to the spread of a virulent disease. But there are enough cell phone owners for the moment and many more eager perspectives to participate in the frenzy. I'm going to bide my time. And concentrate on learning how to check my messages from outside my room...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Chit-Chatting All the Way | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

Members of RAZA, who said they were eager forany concession from the administration, were lessconcerned with the distinction between Chicano andethnic studies...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Raza Hosts Chicano Studies Symposium | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...missing from most fashion-magazine covers, replaced by movie starlets. She's all but gone from top advertising campaigns, beaten out by anonymous, awkward-looking teenagers. She has virtually disappeared from runways, her asking price too dear. Even rock stars don't seem eager to date her anymore. A little glamour has left the world. And so the world mourns, its makeup runny from tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the Supermodel | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...think OCS is extremely strong domestically, but it's not so good for foreign internships, where they were even especially eager to take me because I'm from America," Murphy says. "I think OCS is really great to get started with, but because every student is looking at those jobs, the competition is tougher. You need to find your...

Author: By Neeraj K. Gupta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Careers 101: How to Get a Summer Job in Business | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

...effect is not unlike a version of King-of-the-Mountain, only instead of conquering challengers, those at the peak shame competitors with ugly epithets. Thus, the intelligentsia use words such as "bigot" and "homosexuality morally repugnant. It is not surprising, then, that so few opponents of homosexuality are eager to step into public debate...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Advancing the Gay Rights Debate | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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