Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with other Europeans, spurned Detroit's chromed giants as only suitable for nouveau riche butchers, high-mark call girls and mobsters. They were just too large, too showy and too expensive compared with the better-quality German models. Now, the weak dollar and the U.S. automakers' new enthusiasm for safety and economy are beginning to make the Ami Strassenkreuzer (literally, Yankee street cruiser) a fast-selling status symbol among the young professional elite...
...rise high enough to become directors. Said General Motors Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy, who was a speaker at the breakfast: "Our constant challenge is to find the unconventional woman, the woman with a strong educational background in engineering, who can approach a job as a first-line supervisor with enthusiasm...
...savors that wonderful, old feeling and talks about it with the same earnest enthusiasm he would invoke after a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth of a meaningless August game with the Phillies. Nelson made his love for the Mets as distinct as the not-found-in-nature color of one of his unlimited collection of hideous sport jackets...
...features pianistbandleader Jaki Byard, who must by this time be accustomed to such oversights. Byard's regular Wednesday night gig at Michael's with his Apollo Stompers band is one of Boston's best-kept secrets, and that's a shame--the Stompers are a young, growing group whose enthusiasm, tempered by Byard's experience and humor, makes their performances stimulating and very entertaining...
...captain, Stiles "led by performance and a quiet enthusiasm." associate coach Ed Stowell said yesterday. "You can't set a better example than winning the NCAA championship...