Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political outcry was immediate, and Ashcroft, eager to capitalize on the decision, later invited the family of Mease's victims to attend hearings. Since the Pope's visit, Carnahan has been doing all he can to look tough--as one aide told the Washington Post, "Mel's been stacking up bodies right and left"--but the death penalty is still a sore spot in his campaign. So when Ashcroft described Judge White as "pro-criminal and activist" on the Senate floor, he was making a perfect political maneuver. Yet as Ashcroft surely knew, the description didn't quite match...
...Friday when an Antitrust Division lawyer called from the courthouse, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Microsoft decision in his hands. "What does it say?" asked an eager Joel Klein, head of the division, who was waiting in his conference room with the government's trial team. "I'm on page 16," replied the lawyer who was speed-reading his way through, "and it says they're a monopolist!" "Great!" said Klein. "Keep reading...
...highlighted several examples of candidates who are "eager to advertise their own closeness to God," pointing specifically to Texas Governor and Republican candidate George W. Bush as well as Vice President Al Gore...
...played Penn earlier in the year and didn't have a particularly good match against them," Schaeffer said. "We had just come off a great match against Princeton the day before but just couldn't beat Penn. But we're eager to show them now who Harvard Volleyball really is, and we want to show them how we really play...
Cost is also an issue. Managed-care providers, eager to cash in on the alternative boom, are luring subscribers by offering to cover some of these dubious treatments. But most consumers of alternate products use conventional medicine too, and when it becomes evident that the alternatives are not cost effective and at best produce only a placebo effect, the HMOs will drop them in a heartbeat. Says William Jarvis, a professor of public health at California's Loma Linda University: "Useless procedures don't add to the outcome, just to the overhead...