Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maytag seems ready to get out of the airline business and return to Colorado Springs, where he grew up. National's ups and downs over the years, its labor problems (six strikes since 1964) and the trend toward deregulation and merger all have taken their toll of Maytag's enthusiasm. As he told a friend: "It's no fun running an airline any more." If he does leave National and sell his stock after a Pan Am deal, Maytag would get some consolation: his 317,000 shares would be worth about $11 million...
...fours are dull), or your knowledge of physical chemistry. Lying is permissable, because no one will ever know the difference if you can effectively fake it. Make pronouncements about everyghing. Wear a log of preppie clothes; Locoste shirts and khaki pants are recommended. Topsiders are passe. Scoff at naive enthusiasm with a knowing, sardonic grin. Categorically refust to be excited or amused by anything with a knowing, sardonic grin. Categorically rufuse to be excited or amused by anything except yourself. Potential hazard: everyone will have your guts. In many cases, that's exactly what you want, because they'll never...
...concentrating their money and energy on local races, where they forecast a net gain of six governorships and 250 seats in the state legislatures. He adds: "What we're trying to do is restore our party's base so we can go into 1980 with lots of enthusiasm and momentum. "In other words: wait till next time...
...some politicians believe that they can make him a candidate anyway. Last week a group of influential state chairmen met privately in Washington to discuss Kennedy's prospects. One notion was to use this winter's Democratic Party midterm conference as an opportune setting to whip up enthusiasm for Kennedy...
...York has always been theatrically narcissistic-one of the qualities for which it has been loathed in other parts of the U.S. All over the city, people are wearing I LOVE NY T shirts (a red heart where love should be), in a sort of truculent self-consciousness, an enthusiasm that should not have to be announced. It is defensive municipal flag waving, the equivalent of the old LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT sticker. But a change both real and psychological has occurred...